
Dr David Wilson
Current affiliation: Independent art historian
Subject: Art & Applied Arts
Primary location: United Kingdom
Neo-neoclassicism: how Wilton's bust of Hollis launched David Hicks
Published in:Sculpture Journal
Publication date:2013-01-01What's it about?This article concerns the important and unique eighteenth-century British marble portrait bust of the philosopher, free-thinker and philanthropist,...
Joseph Gott’s blemished portrait bust of Benjamin Gott: reinterpretation of the archive
Published in:Sculpture Journal
Publication date:2016-01-01What's it about?This article is the first major (if limited) discussion in over 40 years of the important British sculptor Joseph Gott, who moved to Rome in 1822, ...
Roubiliac's missing model of Tarquin and Lucretia : its possible purchase by Johan Zoffany in 1762 or later
Published in:Sculpture Journal
Publication date:2009-06-01What's it about?This article concerns the untraced terracotta a model of 'Tarquin and Lucretia' by the great eighteenth-century sculptor, Louis François Roubiliac ...
New information from the Society of Arts: Roubiliac's model of Hercules and Atlas , and Nathaniel Smith's model of St Andrew after Duquesnoy
Published in:Sculpture Journal
Publication date:2007-12-01What's it about?This article concerns previoulsy unpublished (and seemingly unknown) material in the archive of the Society of Arts, London, which sheds light on a...