Description
signed with artist's monogram AM, set within a painted terracotta plaque, decorated with applied stars
Dimensions
31.5cm diameter overall
Footnote
Note: Alexander Munro was a sculptor of the Pre-Raphaelite movement whose early talents were supported by financial assistance from his father's employer, the Duchess of Sutherland. From 1842 he assisted and trained in the Edinburgh studio of the sculptor Alexander Handyside Ritchie. He came to London in 1848 to study sculpture under Charles Barry. At this time he also worked as a mason on the new Palace of Westminster. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1849 to 1870, and at the Great Exhibition of 1851 where his Rossetti-influenced figure-group 'Paolo and Francesca' was first exhibited.