Antique Life Size Plaster Bust of Redmond Barry
Redmond Barry (Ned Kelly's convicting judge) antique life size plaster bust by Charles Summers (1825-1878) one of Australia's leading sculptors and artists. His work includes the famous Burke & Wills monument in Melbourne (1866). Summers was also a founder of the Victorian Society of Fine Art, established in 1856. In need of restoration, many surface losses, has been broken in two and glued, plinth missing. Nevertheless, a rare piece of Australiana
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- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 – 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910.
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