Bertram Mackennal
(Australia, England, France 12 Jun 1863–10 Oct 1931)
- Title
- Lady Diana Duff Cooper (Lady Diana Manners)
- Other titles:
- Lady Diana Cooper
Diana Duff Cooper
Lady Diana Manners - Year
- (1909-circa 1918)
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronze head
- Dimensions
-
40.6 x 28.8 x 24.0cm bust; 50.0 x 28.8 x 24.0cm bust and base:
base; 9 x 17.7 x 15cm; marble base
- Signature & date
- Signed verso, incised "Mackennal". Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Albert and Katey Nathan 1941
- Accession number
- 7156
- Location
- 19th c Australian art
- Bibliography (14)
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Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Bertram Mackennal: the fifth Balnaves Foundation Sculpture Project, Sydney, 2007, 13 (detail, colour illus.), 48 (colour illus.), 57.
Bertram Mackennal: Catalogue raisonné 2007, 2007, (colour illus.). Artworks: Sculpture: 1900s
'Presence & absence: Portrait sculpture in Australia at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra' by Kate M Murphy, pg. 10-13., Art Monthly Australia Apr 2004, Apr 2004, 13 (illus.).
'Portrait sculpture: simultaneously the most artificial and the most "real"' by Deborah Edwards, pg. 29-31., Look Sep 2003, Sep 2003, 29 (colour illus.).
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Presence & absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, Canberra, 2003, 42, 45 (colour illus.), 46, 83. cat.no. 52
Sotheby's Australia (Australia), Sotheby's Sydney: Australian and European paintings and sculpture, Sydney, 19 Jul 1992, (colour illus. of plaster cast). lot no. 120; plaster cast titled 'Bust of a young woman'.
Deborah Edwards (Australia) (Author), Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Domain, 1987. no catalogue numbers
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Author), Ursula Prunster (Australia) (Author), Face to face: Australian portraits, Sydney, 1986, (illus.). cat.no. 3
Macquarie Galleries (Australia, estab. 1925, closed 1993) (Author), Exhibition of bronzes by Sir Bertram Mackennal K.C.V.O, Sydney, 1926. cat.no. 25; titled 'Lady Diana Duff Cooper - portrait'; priced 150 gns
Canadian War Memorials exhibition (1919) 1919, 1919. cat.no. 727; titled 'Lady Diana Manners'; bronze
Royal Scottish Academy (Scotland) (Author), Royal Scottish Academy, 1918, Edinburgh, 1918. cat.no. 40; titled 'Lady Diana Manners'; bronze
The Athenaeum. 26 Jun 1909, 26 Jun 1909, 764.
Royal Academy of Arts (England, estab. 1768) (Author), The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1909, London, 1909. cat.no. 1827; NOTE: Marble version titled 'The Lady Diana Manners - head'.
Royal Academy pictures and sculpture (1909) 1909, 1909, 72 (illus.). NOTE: Reproduction is of the original marble.
- Exhibition history (9)
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Royal Academy of Arts, 1909, Royal Academy of Arts, 1909–1909.
Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1918), Royal Scottish Academy, 1918–1918.
Canadian War Memorials exhibition (1919), Royal Academy of Arts, Jan 1919–Feb 1919.
Exhibition of bronzes by Sir Bertram Mackennal K.C.V.O, Macquarie Galleries, 07 Oct 1926–20 Oct 1926.
Australian sculpture 1890-1919, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 22 Jan 1987–22 Feb 1989.
Australian icons: twenty artists from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Aug 2000–03 Dec 2000.
Presence and absence: portrait sculpture in Australia, National Portrait Gallery [Old Parliament House], 22 Aug 2003–16 Nov 2003.
Bertram Mackennal, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 2007–04 Nov 2007.
Bertram Mackennal, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, 30 Nov 2007–24 Feb 2008.
