Bronze on wooden base
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edwin-whitney-smith-2143" aria-label="More by Edwin Whitney-Smith" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edwin Whitney-Smith</a>
Irishman
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
actions: expressive
adults
body
head / face
Irish
man
nationality
people
smiling
society
sculpture bronze wooden
The Irishman
object: 267 × 190 × 165 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1940
<p><b>N05113</b> THE IRISHMAN (?) <i>c.</i> 1900–10</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Bronze, 10 1/2×7 1/2×6 1/2 (26·5×19×16·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>United Artists</i>, R.A., January–March 1940 (2211).</p>
<p>The artist's son wrote (2 February 1961) that ‘the “Irishman”, as far as I remember, was in the Household Cavalry and guarded the aged Queen Victoria at Osborne towards the end of her days. The bust must have been made well before the 1914–18 war. I remember seeing the old man at Priory Road when I was a child.’ Although referred to here as a bust, the work is actually a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/metal" title="Glossary definition for 'Metal'"><span>bronze</span></a> mask.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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actions: expressive adults body head / face Irish man nationality people smiling society