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JOHN WARRINGTON WOOD (1839-1886) A CARVED MARBLE GROUP 'SISTERS OF BETHANY' DATED 1876 Depicting the scene as told in the Gospel of John, chapter 11, with Martha entreating her sister to meet with Christ and with the imminent resurrection of their brother Lazarus to follow, signed, inscribed and dated in cursive script on rear of chair J. WARRINGTON WOOD Sculpt Rome 1876, plinth inscribed: SISTERS OF BETHANY, THE MASTER IS COME AND CALLETH FOR THEE approximately 109cm high, base 49 by 33.5cmJohn Wood was a sculptor mainly of mythological and biblical subjects, and also portrait busts. Born in Warrington, Lancashire in 1839, he adopted Warrington as his middle name to distinguish himself from the older sculptor John Wood (1801-70). After training as a stonemason, he moved to Rome in 1865 where he studied under John Gibson. His success afforded him the wealth to purchase the Villa Campana. He exhibited works at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1868 to 1884 including a version of this sculpture in the 1879 Royal Academy Exhibition, catalogue No. 1509, which was displayed in the Central Hall.In 1877 he was elected to the Guild of St. Luke in Rome and his statues of Raphael and Michelangelo stand at the entrance to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool with further work in Manchester Town Hall and in the museum and art gallery in Warrington. Another version of this work, dated 1871, is currently exhibited at the Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland.