1653

Figure — CRC# 1653

Description
An extremely rare Bristol group of Andromache weeping over the ashes of Hector, in the white, on rectangular base
Service
In the white
Date
1779
Size
32cm tall
Condition
Minor firing issues to base otherwise perfect
Mark
No mark
Mark Group
No mark
Decorator
No mark
Maker
Champion
Historic Provenance
English private collection
Notes
Richard Champion made this, his most famous work, in 1779 in memory of his daughter Eliza who died suddenly that year. Only two other copies are known. One, decorated with a memorial to Eliza, he took to South Carolina in 1784 and passed down through his family after his death. It is now in the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. The other is in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The work is based on a Thomas Burke mezzotint Andromache and Hecuba Weeping over the Ashes of Hector (1771) which in turn was based on a painting of the same name by Angelica Kauffman.
CRC#
1653
Type
Figure

Historic illustrations, exhibitions and provenance

  • H0404 · 1770

    Andromache and Hecuba weeping over the ashes of Hector by Angelica Kaufmann

  • H0402 · 1771

    A widely published mezzotint by Thomas Burke

  • H0403 · 1779

    Grief, or Dear Eliza, the last dated work produced by Richard Champion's Bristol factory

  • H0405 · 1873

    Grief, or Dear Eliza, from Owen's Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol

    Source: Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol

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