Enchanting 1800s Richard James Wyatt Engraving "The Kind Huntress" Framed COA

Description: --> Four Centuries of the world's finest artists from our collection to yours --> Thank you for visiting... Please feel free to ask any questions you might have about this work and we will answer promptly.International bidders are always welcome to bid and we combine shipping on all orders. --> Artist: Richard James Wyatt (British, baptised 1795 – 1850)Title: The Huntress Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original marble statue by master engraver William Callio Roffe (British, 1817 - c. 1894).Year: 1857Condition: ExcellentDimensions: Image Size 3 1/2 x 7 1/8 inches. Framed dimensions: Approximately 13 x 16 inches. Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials. Additional notes: This is not a modern print. This impression is more than 160 years old. The strike is crisp and the lines are sharp. The original marble statue is housed is part of The Royal Trust Collection. Extra Information:This partially draped classical female youth is possibly one of Diana’s nymphs. She is depicted seated and removing a thorn out of greyhound’s foot. Her quiver and arrows leaning against the stump indicate that she is a huntress and establish her connection with the goddess Diana. In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, mythologically similar to the Greek goddess Artemis. The daughter of Jupiter and Latona, Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos. A goddess of both chastity and fertility, and also of the moon, Diana's cult became popular throughout the ancient Roman empire, both among the nobility and the lower classes. She was the patron of slaves, who could find sanctuary in her temples, and of women seeking to conceive healthy children. Eternally young and beautiful, she was known to possess a quick temper and fiercely defended her virginity. Often portrayed with bow and arrow and accompanied either by a deer or hounds, Diana was the goddess of both wild and domestic animals. Her temple in Ephesus was one of the wonders of the world. In later centuries, Diana figured in European myths of the female Wild Hunt. During the Renaissance, she became a popular figure in art, poetry, and drama. More recently, her early role as a strong female deity has been examined in academic discussions of the history of religions, and she has inspired a branch of the neo-pagan religion. She is an archetype of the competent, free-spirited, independent female. Artist Biography: Richard James Wyatt was a British sculptor. He was the grandson of the architect James Wyatt. Wyatt studied in Rome under Canova, and was a fellow student of John Gibson (sculptor). He was a man of classical tastes, and produced a number of exquisitely modelled, especially female, figures. Wyatt was born in London, the son of Edward Wyatt the elder (1757–1833) and Anne Maddox; he was baptized at St James, Middlesex. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools, where he gained two medals, and served his apprenticeship with John Charles Felix Rossi. In 1818 he exhibited at the academy a Judgment of Paris, and in 1819 a monument to Lady Anne Hudson; other early memorial works by him are in Esher church and St. John's Wood chapel. When Canova visited this country Wyatt was brought under his notice by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and received from him an invitation to Rome. He left England early in 1821, and, after studying for a few months in Paris under Bosio, proceeded to Rome, and entered the studio of Canova, where he had John Gibson (1790–1866) as a fellow pupil. Settling permanently in Rome, Wyatt practiced his profession there with great enthusiasm and success, and from 1831 until his death was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Among his best works were Ino and the infant Bacchus, Girl at the Bath, Musidora (at Chatsworth), and Penelope, The Huntress, and Flora (all in the royal collection). The ‘Penelope’ was a commission given by the queen to Wyatt at the time of his only visit to England in 1841. Wyatt was a highly accomplished artist, particularly excelling in his female figures, which in purity of form and beauty of line rivaled those of his master Canova. A woodcut portrait, from a drawing by S. Pearce, accompanies a memoir of him in The Art Journal, published in 1850. Versions of his Ino and the infant Bacchus are at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and another formerly at County Hall Chester. Wyatt was the son of Edward Wyatt (1757–1833), a well-known carver and gilder of Oxford Street, by his wife Anne Madox, and cousin of Matthew Cotes Wyatt, was born in Oxford Street, London, on 3 May 1795. His whole life was otherwise passed in Rome, where he died, unmarried, on 29 May 1850, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery. Some of his works were shown at the London exhibition of 1851, and were awarded a gold medal. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and is Fully Guaranteed to be Certified as Described Framing Any framing included in a listing is double matted and framed in a solid wood moulding. We can also frame any pieces not listed as such. Please contact us for pricing. We are usually half the price of a regular framer. Shipping Packages are shipped the next business day after confirmed payment is received. If you are making multiple purchases, please request an invoice so that we may combine shipping charges for you. Guarantee We guarantee all our listings to be 100% as described Returns Returns are accepted up to fourteen days after receiving your purchase. 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Location: Cape Coral, Florida

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