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Lot 7

Joseph Edgar Boehm: A carved marble bust of Lieut Col Hon Augustus Frederick Ellis

signed AVC Fred.Ellis
Etat24
J.E.Boehm 1876
After Chantry 1824
64cm high

Condition: One or two tiny chips; mainly on socle, none on face; nice antique condition with no other losses and probably in need of light clean
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
Hammer price: £3,000
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Augustus Frederick Ellis 17 September 1800 – 16 August 1841 was a British Army officer and Tory politician.

Ellis was the son of Charles Ellis, 1st Baron Seaford and Elizabeth Catherine Caroline Hervey.

He was educated at Eton College between 1811 and 1814  and commissioned into the 9th Regiment of Light Dragoons in 1817. On 4 October 1821 Ellis purchased a captaincy in the 76th Regiment of Foot.

He stood for the Seaford constituency, a seat controlled by his father, in the 1826 general election. He was returned as the Member of Parliament alongside fellow Tory John Fitzgerald. Ellis vacated the seat to allow George Canning to hold the seat for four months in 1827, before resuming it. He rarely attended the House of Commons and focused on his military career, being promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the 60th Royal Rifles in December 1828. Ellis voted for Catholic emancipation in March 1829.

Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Baronet, RA 1834 –1890 was an Austrian-born British medallist and sculptor, best known for the "Jubilee head" of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. During his career Boehm maintained a large studio in London and produced a significant volume of public works and private commissions. A speciality of Boehm's was the portrait bust, as in this example; there are many examples of these in the National Portrait Gallery. He was often commissioned by the Royal Family and members of the aristocracy to make sculptures for their parks and gardens. His works were many, and he exhibited 123 of them at the Royal Academy from 1862 to his death in 1890.

It is likely that Boehm would have made a copy of Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey’s original executed in 1824 at a cost of £105.00, probably for another family member.


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