Sir James Bacon (1798-1895) judge

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand

Cast from a terracotta original.

Joseph Edgar Boehm was born in Vienna; the son of a medallist, engraver and director of the imperial mint. He attended Leigh’s Art Academy, London (1848-51), before returning to Vienna to study medal design and modelling. From 1859 he lived in Paris. In 1862 he moved to London, eventually settling at The Avenue, Fulham Road, where studio assistants included Gilbert and Drury. His works are mostly marble busts, but he also produced church monuments and equestrian statuettes. He received over 40 royal commissions, taught Princess Louise, was the Queen’s Sculptor-in-Ordinary from 1880 and was made a baronet in 1889. He became a Royal Academician in 1881. Boehm died aged 56. Princess Louise’s presence at his death provoked considerable gossip.

People

Sir James Bacon (1798 - 1895)

Places

Subjects

male portrait, man, robe, legal costume, wig, judge, Knight, Privy Counsellor

Materials & Techniques

sculpture (as object name), plaster sculpture, plaster

Artist

Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834 - 1890)

Title

Sir James Bacon (1798-1895) judge

Date

Medium

Plaster sculpture

Dimensions

height: 93.00 cm, width: 31.00 cm

Acquisition

Presented by Miss Jane Norton and family, 1956

Provenance

Collection of the Norton family, great-grandchildren of the sitter; presented by their mother, Laura Francis (née Lawrence; whose mother, Laura, was Sir James's only daughter) to the Royal Courts of Justice in 1956

GAC number

RCJ15413