15929961800001312637261000Standard Recordobject-31070170292702740817029083840001702926927920fitz-onlineadlib-object-31070https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31070efa45a36-8fb5-3317-95dd-0d7dd9a603d010personreferenceagent-157038adlib-agent-157038c644ffd4-c812-343c-bfeb-525ce460061dStanley, Augusta, Ladyreferenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculpturereferenceterm-98112adlib-term-9811232d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139portraitApplied ArtsWhite marble. Bust.M.6-19771accession numberM.6-197731070priref31070external IDCAM_CCF_M_6_1977urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31070https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/31070138 preceeds a crown in outlineon the backincised138
LADY AUGUSTA BRUCE,/B: 1822; / M: ARTHUR STANLEY,/ DEAN OF WESTMINSTER,/ 1863:/ D: 1876./____- / W THEED SC,/ LONDON 1877.referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPurchased with the Butler Fundreferenceagent-156886adlib-agent-156886f973a735-9918-3208-be70-17282521b2b1Mack, Kathleen M.197719771977boughtSee correspondence in the object's file with the vendor, and with Geoffrey de Bellaigue in 1977 and Oliver Miller in 1986.18771877dated 18771877sculptorreferenceagent-133978adlib-agent-1339785553ba02-a0c5-304d-b363-40a82a41a998Theed, William IILady Stanley (born Lady Augusta Bruce) was a daughter of the Earl of Elgin of the ‘Elgin Marbles’. Having served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria’s mother from 1846 until 1861, she became Victoria’s live-in secretary and friend. In December 1863, much to the Queen’s annoyance, she married Arthur Stanley, future Dean of Westminster. Appointed ‘extra woman of the bedchamber’ upon her marriage, Augusta retained close connections with the Queen for the rest of her life, connecting Victoria (then in the depths of her secluded widowhood) to the world. This sensitive posthumous portrait, carved the year after Augusta’s death, was originally in the Royal Collection. It may have been a royal commission given how devastated Queen Victoria was by Augusta’s death, recalling: ‘she was such a help in so many ways, so sympathising, loving and kind, so attached to me and mine, so clever and agreeable, known to so many … It was always a treat to me when she came.’referenceterm-108070adlib-term-1080707e278258-23e3-3d5b-a4ff-ab5ecacb4bf319th Century, Late#referenceterm-37963adlib-term-37963929f6c25-5677-3624-90d4-f6d882da98ecwhite marbleHeightcm76.2referencemedia-206682adlib-media-20668288e4ee0b-a9ca-32e3-94ee-922a53db26e1jpegaa/aa37/M_6_1977_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg1heightpixels1025widthpixels75817029267628471imagejpegaa/aa37/mid_M_6_1977_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg1heightpixels676widthpixels50017029267628471imagejpegaa/aa37/M_6_1977_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg1heightpixels1025widthpixels75817029267628471imagejpegaa/aa37/preview_M_6_1977_1_201401_mfj22_dc2.jpg1heightpixels338widthpixels25017029267628471image0media
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imagereferenceterm-23035adlib-term-23035f9693b6b-2e4a-3666-acf8-973403f65fcebusthistory noteThe Royal Collection, Windsor Castle; the Very Reverend Albert-Victor Baillie, Dean of Windsor to whom it was sent from Windsor Castle in 1930; after his death in 1955 it came, how exactly is not known, into the hands of the vendor's mother, from whom it was inherited.referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameSculpture UKSculpture UKreferencepublication-4693adlib-publication-4693baea5975-a8de-3b1d-bb35-3531ecd3765cLetters of Lady Augusta Stanley, A Young Lady at Court 1849-1863referenceterm-23035adlib-term-23035f9693b6b-2e4a-3666-acf8-973403f65fcebustbustwhite marble, carvedreferenceterm-98865adlib-term-98865aeb90103-2708-3cdf-abc1-219c45a070e9carvingLady Augusta Stanley (1822-76)object
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