Unidentified photographer and Francis Derwent Wood RA, Ambrose McEvoy, 1915.
290 mm x 262 mm.
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Ambrose McEvoy, 1915
Unidentified photographer and Francis Derwent Wood RA (1871 - 1926)
RA Collection: Art
Photograph of a sketch model for a portrait bust of Ambrose McEvoy A.R.A. The plaster was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1915, cat.74. A bronze was later included in the Derwent Wood memorial exhibition in 1927. In 1953 Mrs Derwent Wood presented a bronze bust of McEvoy to the Academy (03/1704).
One of a collection of 67 photographs of sculpture by Francis Derwent Wood R.A. The photographs formerly belonged to Kineton Parkes.
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290 mm x 262 mm
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