Bronze on marble base
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/edward-onslow-ford-191" aria-label="More by Edward Onslow Ford" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Edward Onslow Ford</a>
Sir WQ Orchardson RA
Presented by the Orchardson Memorial Committee 1914
adults
artist, painter
arts and entertainment
body
head / face
individuals: male
man
moustache
named individuals
Orchardson, William Quiller
people
portraits
work and occupations
<p>Onslow Ford exhibited this head at the Royal Academy in 1895, the year in which he was elected a full Academician. It shows the Scottish painter Orchardson, who was a generation older than Ford and had been an RA since 1877. Ford made many portraits of British and French artists, and this year also exhibited heads of the painters Briton Riviere and Matthew Ridley Corbet at the RA. He often worked in terracotta, and the fine detail in heads such as this one records his precise cutting of the original clay model. The signature of Orchardson was written into wax and added to the base before casting.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
sculpture bronze marble
22 March 2013 – 1 September 2013
2013-09-01
22 March 2013 – 1 September 2013
2013-09-01
2013-03-22
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-03-22
Image of the British School
Collection based display
Sir W.Q. Orchardson, R.A.
object: 622 × 305 × 229 mm, 28 kg
Presented by the Orchardson Memorial Committee 1914
<p>Onslow Ford exhibited this head at the Royal Academy in 1895, the year in which he was elected a full Academician. It shows the Scottish painter Orchardson, who was a generation older than Ford and had been an RA since 1877. </p><p>Ford made many <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portraits</span></a> of British and French artists, and this year also exhibited heads of the painters Briton Riviere and Matthew Ridley Corbet at the RA. He often worked in terracotta, and the fine detail in heads such as this one records his precise cutting of the original clay model. The signature of Orchardson was written into wax and added to the base before <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/cast" title="Glossary definition for 'Cast'"><span>casting</span></a>.</p>
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2004-08-18T00:00:00
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<p><b>N02971</b> SIR W. Q. ORCHARDSON, R.A. <i>c.</i> 1895
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<br/>Inscr. on base ‘W.Q. Orchardson R.A.’ and on left shoulder ‘E. Onslow Ford’.
<br/>Bronze, 24 1/2×12×9 (62×30·5×23), on marble base, 2 1/4×9×8 1/2 (6×23×22).
<br/>Presented by the Orchardson Memorial Committee 1914.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> R.A., 1895 (1643).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> M. H. Spielmann, <i>British Sculpture and Sculptors of To-day</i>, 1901, p.54.
<br/><i>Repr:</i> <i>Royal Academy Pictures</i>, 1895, p.91.</p>
<p>Sir William Quiller Orchardson (1832–1910), painter, is represented in the Gallery by seven works. According to the entry on him in the <i>Dictionary of National Biography</i> <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ford-sir-w-q-orchardson-r-a-n02971" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N02971</span></a> is a late <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/cast" title="Glossary definition for 'Cast'"><span>cast</span></a> of the original bust, which belonged to Mrs Joseph.</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, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-23T00:00:00
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adults artist, painter arts and entertainment body head / face individuals: male man moustache named individuals Orchardson, William Quiller people portraits work and occupations