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'New Sculpture' was a movement that brought a new poetic realism into British Sculpture with a wider range of techniques, of subject-matter and of pose. Onslow Ford (1852-1901) and WiIliam Goscombe John (1860 -1952) were friends of Lever and were central figures in the new movement. Lever had a deep commitment to 18th-century classicism and Victorian high art and became 'New Sculpture's' single most important patron. Below we can see the contrast between the 'old' and the 'new', so as to speak.
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GIOVACCHINO
FORTINI (1671 - 1736) Italian (Florence) Bust of Ferdinando de Medici,
c. 1700 Marble; 139 x 90.3 x 59.5 cm. Purchased by Lever, 1922.
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JOHN
FLAXMAN (1755 - 1826) British Cephalus and Aurora, 1790 Marble;
146 x 102 x 67 cm. Purchased by Lever at the Hope sale.
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