Lot 200
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM SHIRREFFS
PORTRAIT BUST OF DAVID GAULD, CIRCA 1896
Auction: 3 April 2019 at 12:00 BST
£1,063
Description
bronze, dark brown patina, raised on a green marble pedestal, unsigned
Dimensions
56.5cm high overall; bronze 36cm high
Footnote
Provenance: David Gauld
His daughter, Marie Gauld Dunn
Note: William Shirreffs was born in Aberdeenshire and moved to Glasgow in 1870 to study sculpture under William Mossman Junior at Glasgow School of Art. He produced many public statues and architectural carvings and portrait busts and exhibited at the RGIFA, the RA and at the 1888 International Exhibition in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. In the 1880s he was assistant to James Pittendrigh MacGillivray in the making of his Monument to William Ewart Gladstone in Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh.