Eliza Home Lizars
Artist
Patric Park
(Glasgow, Scotland, 1811 - 1855)
Associated
Eliza Home Lizars
Date1852
Mediummarble on marble plinth
ClassificationsSculptures
DimensionsOverall: Height: 56 cm, Width: 37 cm, Depth: 22 cm
Plinth Size: Height: 11 cm, Width: 20.5 cm, Depth: 20.5 cm
Plinth Size: Height: 11 cm, Width: 20.5 cm, Depth: 20.5 cm
AcquisitionBequeathed in 1897 by Mrs A J Lizars.
CopyrightOut of copyright
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG004685
About MePatrick Park was apprenticed to a builder at the age of fourteen and worked for a time at Hamilton Palace in Lanarkshire as a stone carver. Later he studied in Rome under the Neo-Classical sculptor Thorvaldsen, to whom he gained an introduction from the Duke of Hamilton. Park executed many busts and other subjects, among them a colossal statue of William Wallace.The sitter, Eliza Home Lizars, was the daughter of Alexander Jardine Lizars MD FRCS, Profesor of Anatomy at the University of Aberdeen.
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