Sunday, November 1, 2020

Portraits in Relief - Nineteenth Century

Giuseppe Girometti
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia
 with Empress Elizaveta Alexeyevna

ca. 1816
sardonyx  cameo
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Benedetto Pistrucci
King George III
1816
sardonyx cameo
British Museum

John Kelly
Princess Charlotte Augusta,
daughter of King George IV

1817
ivory relief
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous Russian Artist
Catherine the Great
before 1818
jasper cameo
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Samuel Percy
Posthumous Portrait of Queen Anne
ca. 1800-1820
colored-wax relief, with velvet drapery
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous Austrian Artist
Caroline Augusta, Empress of Austria
ca. 1820
agate cameo
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni Beltrami
Franz I, Emperor of Austria
before 1840
onyx cameo
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Richard Cockle Lucas
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
ca. 1850
ivory relief
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Ended, ere it began –
The Title was scarcely told
When the Preface perished from Consciousness
The story, unrevealed –

Had it been mine, to print!
Had it been yours, to read!
That it was not our privilege
The interdict of God –

– Emily Dickinson (1865)

Henri de Triqueti
Portrait of a Young Woman
1850
marble relief
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alexander Munro
Agnes Gladstone
ca. 1855
plaster relief
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

James Sherwood Westmacott
Constance Westmacott, the Artist's Daughter
ca. 1872
marble relief
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Tommaso Saulini
Edward, Prince of Wales
1870
shell cameo
British Museum

Anonymous Artist
Alexandra, Princess of Wales
1870
shell cameo
British Museum

Carlo Giuliano
Queen Victoria
1877
gold relief portrait
set in enamelled-gold pendant, with rubies, diamonds and pearls
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Berquin-Varangoz Workshop, Paris
Portrait of Heber R. Bishop
1898
jade relief
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York