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Lot description
Richard Cockle Lucas, British, 1800-1883, two bronze coloured wax portrait reliefs, dated 1850, comprising: a portrait of General Charles Richard Fox, British, 1796-1873, dated 1850, depicted with large sideburns, on oval brown wax ground inscribed General Chs Fox 1850 and signed RC Lucas, with velvet-covered plaster surround, in glazed oak frame with giltwood mount, 13.5cm high, frame - 32.6 x 27.4cm; and a portrait of Edward Hawkins F.R.S. F.S.A., British, 1780-1867, on an oval brown wax ground inscribed Ed Hawkins Esq FRS FSA 1850 and R C Lucas Sculptor, in velvet-covered plaster surround, in glazed oak frame with giltwood mount, portrait -12cm high, frame - 32.5 x 27.5cm; together with a brown resin portrait relief of Albert Way, after Richard Cockle Lucas, second half 20th century, bearing inscription Albert Way Esq. Ma., and R C Lucas Sculptor 1850, with velvet covered plaster surround, in later ebonised and glazed frame, portrait - 12.5cm high, frame - 36 x 33cm (3) Provenance: Resin portrait of Albert Way, sold as part of a lot of 2 waxes, one plaster portrait and one resin portrait - Roseberys, The Property of the Late Reverend John Watson, 7 December 2023, lot 309. Note: Richard Cockle Lucas (1800-1883) is predominately known as a sculptor in wax and ivory, but he also worked in glass, marble and bronze, as well as being a painter. He began his career as a sculptor as an apprentice to his uncle, who worked as a cutler in Winchester, carving knife handles. He joined the Royal Academy Schools in 1828 and studied under Richard Westmacott. He exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1829 and 1859 and showed ivory carvings and imitation bronzes at the Great Exhibition in 1851. Wax portraits of General Fox and Edward Hawkins are recorded as extant works in wax by Richard Cockle Lucas (Fox, Gen. Charles, 1850 (formerly in C.100) (Hawkins, Edward 1850, C.302). Pyke, E. J., A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973, p.82.