Provenance
Henry E. Bingham [1866-1949], London ;[1] by descent to his grandson, Trevor H.B. Shaw, Esq. [1923-1996], Surrey;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1989, no. 36);[3] (Thos. Agnew & Sons Limited, London); purchased 8 January 1991 by NGA.
[1] The late Trevor H.B. Shaw, Esq., letter of 9 March 1995, to Suzanne G. Lindsay (in NGA curatorial files). The Bingham tomb (Brompton Cemetery, London) cites his death date as 27 July 1949, at age eighty-two. William Agnew, Diana Keith-Neal, and Tiggy Sawbridge helped with this biographical research. A letter from Alison Luchs in the NGA Curatorial Records states that this bust could have been sculpted for Bingham (who was a marble supplier) in return for marble he gave Dalou, in which case the subject would be his son, Henry Ebenezar Bingham.
[2] _Master Drawings and Sculpture_. Exh. cat. Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1989: no. 62, color repro.
[3] _Nineteenth Century European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture_, Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1989, no. 36, color repro.
Accession Number
1991.2.1
Medium
marble
Dimensions
overall: 47.6 x 26.5 x 17.6 cm (18 3/4 x 10 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
Gift of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art