Lot 172
PAIR OF PAINTED PLASTER FIGURAL TORCHERES, IN THE MANNER OF HUMPHREY HOPPER
19TH CENTURY
Fine Furniture and Works of Art
Auction: 5 July 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
modelled as classical draped ladies, on later painted square wood plinths, stamped on the bases 'L. BRUGIOTTI 4 & 99 LEATHER LANE/ HOLBORN' (2)
Dimensions
Figure one 110cm high; figure two 119cm high; total 201cm and 211cm high
Footnote
Note: Louis or Luigi Brugiotti (c.1818-1888) was recorded as figure maker, or a plaster figure maker, working in London. He produced busts, medical casts and decorative items, with known examples including a bust of the founder of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Prior Rahere, as well as 'bronzed' figures and painted lamp bases. His company was enlisted in the 1870s and 1880s to make plaster casts of body parts to illustrate medical conditions as teaching props for Great Ormond Street Hospital. It appears that the Brugiottis were a family of figure makers, as Peter and Anthony Brugiotti were also registered as working either for the firm or as modellers during the mid-19th century.