£2,000
Auction: Design Since 1860
oil on board, signed with monogram
Provenance: From Castle of Park, Aberdeenshire
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.