LOT 164
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Lot 164
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS WARD (American 1830-1910)
Hercules
Bronze with dark brown patina
Inscribed on base “Cast by the Henry Bonnard Bronze Co./New York 1889”
Height 26 inches
Estimate:
$2,500 - 5,000
€ 1,900 - 3,700
Provenance:
Private collection, Massachusetts
Literature:
Lewis Sharp. “John Quincy Adams Ward, Dean of American Sculpture,” Associated University Presses, Inc. 1985, Cat. No. 4, p. 140
This sculpture, modeled around 1855, is presumed to have been executed by Ward while a student in the studio of Henry Kirke Brown. It is apparently derived (with only slight variations) from the Farnese Hercules. The only other known example is in the collection of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, which was bequeathed to the Academy by Mrs. Rachel Ward in 1933. The Academy example is neither signed, dated, or with foundry mark. Ward adapted the head and shoulders of the Hercules for the handle of his monogram dye, which was also bequeathed to the academy in 1933 by Mrs. Ward.
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