ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH WILTON (LONDON 1722 - 1803 LONDON), AFTER GIAN LORENZO BERNINI (NAPLES 1598 - 1680 ROME)

Lot 23
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Lot 23 | ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH WILTON (LONDON 1722 - 1803 LONDON), AFTER GIAN LORENZO BERNINI (NAPLES 1598 - 1680 ROME)
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ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH WILTON (LONDON 1722 - 1803 LONDON), AFTER GIAN LORENZO BERNINI (NAPLES 1598 - 1680 ROME)

Anima Dannata (Damned Soul)

marble bust; on a black marble socle

22 in. (56 cm.) high, overall





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

R. Wittkower, Gian Lorenzo Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, London, 1955, pp. 177-179.

T. Hodgkinson, ‘Joseph Wilton and Doctor Cocchi’, in Victoria and Albert Museum Bulletin, III, 1967, pp. 73–80.

M. Whinney, English Sculpture 1720–1830, London, 1988, pp. 261-269.

C. Avery, Bernini: Genius of the Baroque, London, 1997, pp. 66 and 83, fig. 71.

J. Kenworthy-Browne, ‘The Duke of Richmond's Gallery in Whitehall’ in The British Art Journal, XX no.1, 2009, pp. 40-49.

I. Roscoe, ed., A biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, pp. 1385-1393.

A. Bacchi and A. Coliva, eds., Bernini, exhibition catalogue, Rome, Galleria Borghese, 2017-2018, pp. 44-48, no. I.6.

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