Thomas Dawson, first Baron Dartrey (Later first Viscount Cremorne)
Date:
ca. 1771
Materials & Techniques:
Carrara marble on an original oval socle
Dimensions:
Overall: 21 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches, 110 lb. (54.6 × 41.9 × 24.1 cm, 49.9 kg)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.33
Gallery Label:
Thomas Dawson was an Anglo-Irish landowner with close ties to the court of George III. His first wife, Anne, died young in 1769 and the grieving Dawson commissioned Joseph Wilton to make a monument in her memory for his estate in County Monaghan. Wilton, Sculptor in Ordinary to George III, made this bust from the statue of Dawson in the monument. The face combines sorrow and resignation and speaks of the sitter’s virtuous patience in the face of death. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
