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Description: | Cast of a bust of John Gray, founder of Gray's School of Art. The original marble bust is held in the RGU collections (ABDRG10704).
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53 x 70 x 35 cm
Bust of John Gray, founder of Gray's School of Art. A marble version of the bust was presented to Gray by his fellow citizens as a mark of appreciation for his gift of a School of Art to Aberdeen. Henry Bain Smith (1857-1893) was a student of the School of Art that operated in the Aberdeen Mechanics' Institute prior to the opening of Gray's, having first served his apprenticeship as a stonecutter in the Aberdeen Granite Works. His other works include a bust of shipbuilder William Hall and a statue of Robert Burns which was unveiled in Union Terrace Gardens on 15th September 1892. In later years he merged his two second names into Bainsmith. He died in London in 1893. There are two copies of this bust, the other is of marble (ABDRG10704). The marble bust was bequeathed to the School in 1933 by John Gray's niece Mary Ann Clark.
portrait bust | Publisher: | MLA:ABDRG | Rights holder: | MLA:ABDRG | Subjects: | Education; Sculpture 1800-present; Fine Art | Temporal: | 1886 | Source: | Robert Gordon University | Creator: | Smith, Henry Bain | Identifier: | http://collections.rgu.ac.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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