Richard James Wyatt

( 1795 - 1850 )

Nymph Entering the Bath

First half of the 19th century

Marble

152.5 x 50 x 60 cm (60 x 19 ³/₄ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)

Signed: 'R.J. WYATT. Fecit/ROMA' (on the base)

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA

Aladar Zellinger de Balkany (1900-1983)
and by descent to Robert de Balkany
 
Related Literature
F. Gerardi, “Scoltura, Sopra una Ninfa in atto d’entrare nel bagno, scolpita dal Sig. Riccardo Wayatt”, in Il Tiberino, II, 1834, pl. 82
Lady E. Rigby Eastlake, Life of John Gibson R.A., Sculptor, London, 1870
T. Matthews, The Biography of John Gibson, R.A., Sculptor, Rome and London, 1911
I. Roscoe et al., A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660–1851, New Haven
and London, 2009
 

Richard James Wyatt