STATUARY at the Great Exhibition of 1851
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was almost overflowing with statues (about half of which were from British based sculptors). Below is a list of these statues so far identified (210), grouped by their current location (if known). This page is live, and will be updated as more statues from the exhibition are added to the list, as their current whereabouts are identified, and when a suitable computer 3D model is located or created.
Our target is to obtain 3D computer models of all of these, to populate our VR simulation of the Great Exhibition. Do you know where any of the "not yet located" statues are now (here)? Do you know of any existing 3D models of any of these statues? Are you located close to any of these statues and could help obtain the necessary photographs? Many of these works also had copies made in miniature - do you know the whereabouts of any of these copies?
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Note: the Great Exhibition was laid out as a set of cells 24 foot x 24 foot. North to South they were labelled by letters ('A' to 'S'); West to East they were numbered ('1' to '77'). The approximate location within the building is appended [within square brackets] to each statue listed below.
WALES
Marquis of Bute, Callaghan Square, Cardiff
by John Evans Thomas [K45] 
SCOTLAND
Orphans reading the bible by Alexander
Handyside Ritchie, 16 Gordon Street, Glasgow [S9] - note:
matches text description, may not be actual item at exhibition.
Lurline by Friedrich Wilhelm Engelhard, McLean
Museum and Art Gallery [J65] (not currently on display)
ENGLAND (NORTH)
Virginius & his daughter (Bretton Hall,
near Wakefield, West Yorkshire) by Patrick MacDowell [L39]
(note: currently in safe storage pending restoration)
The Greek Slave by Hiram Powers, Raby Castle,
Co Durham [K71] (simulation is using statuette version,
without chains, from Smithsonian)
The Veiled Vestal by Raffaele Monti,
Chatsworth House [O61] 
ENGLAND (MIDLANDS)
Eagle Slayer by John Bell, Coalbrookdale
Museum of Iron, Ironbridge [K35] (photographed - model
reconstruction underway).
Andromeda by John Bell, Coalbrookdale Museum
of Iron, Ironbridge [J41] (photographed - model
reconstruction underway).
Youth at a stream by John Henry Foley,
Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-on-Avon [J40] 
Duke of Rutland by Edward Davis, Market Place,
Leicester [J33] 
Dancing Girl Reposing by W C Marshall, Higgins
Museum, Bedford [O39] 
Babes in the Wood by John Bell, Norwich Castle
Museum [R28] 
Statuette of Lady Godiva by W Behnes, St
Mary's Guildhall, Coventry [R29] 
ENGLAND (LONDON)
Richard the Lionheart, Old Palace Yard,
Westminster [Outside exhibition West entrance] 
John Hampden by John Henry Foley, Palace of
Westminster [C39]
Lord Falkland by John Bell, Palace of
Westminster [I37] 
Sir William Follett, Chapel of St Michael,
Westminster Abbey [L33] 
Richard, Marquis Wellesley, by Henry Weekes,
Gurkha Stair, former India Office (FCO) [O39] 
Zephyr and Aurora by William Calder Marshall,
Battersea Arts Centre [L40] 
Beatrice by John Hancock (V&A Museum)
[R29] note: current display location not possible to scan
Dorothea by John Bell (V&A Museum)
[Q28] note: current display location not possible to scan
Eve by Patrick MacDowell (V&A, not on
display) [C39] 
Charity by John Thomas, Chalford Christ Church
[Gallery:C33] 
Fighting Horses (Duncan's horses) by John
Graham Lough, V&A (bronze) (not currently on display)
[Q37] 
Duke of Wellington by Thomas Milnes,
Wellington Park, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich [D39] (note:
damaged, large part of right arm missing - is there a statuette
version?)
Dancing Girl Reposing by W C Marshall, Science
Museum Group [O39]
Bust of Queen Victoria by John Francis,
Draper's Hall [R29] 
John Flaxman by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson,
University College [L43] 
ENGLAND (SOUTH)
Eldon & Stowell, Poynton Reading Room,
University College Library, Oxford [K22] 
Horse & Dragon by M C Wyatt, Stratfield
Saye, Basingtoke, Hampshire [K33] 
The Deer Stalker by Edward Bowring Stephens,
Northernhay Gardens, Exeter [I37] 
Venus and Cupid by Frederick Thrupp, Torre
Abbey Museum [??] 
Victory by George Nelson, Canterbury Cathedral
[R28] 
Sahar de Quincy, Earl of Winchester by James
Sherwood Westmacott, The Beaney, Canterbury [R29] 
Narcissus by William Theed, Anglesey Abbey,
Lode [R29] 
ENGLAND (ISLE OF WIGHT: OSBORNE HOUSE) (access denied)
Nymph Glycera by Richard James Wyatt, Billiard
Room, Osborne House, Isle of Wight [J47] 
The Amazons and Argonauts by Engel, Osborne
House, Isle of Wight [M38] 
The Princess Royal as Summer by Mary
Thornycroft, possibly at Osborne House [R29] 
Prince Alfred as Autumn by Mary Thornycroft,
Osborne House [R29] 
Princess Alice as Spring by Mary Thornycroft,
Osborne House [R29] 
The Prince of Wales as Winter by Mary
Thornycroft, Osborne House [R29] 
Una and the Lion by John Bell, Osborne House
[R28] (full size original is believed lost)
The Bather by John Lawlor, Osborne House
[R29] 
Victory by Christian Daniel Rauch, Osborne
House [C39]
Paul et Virginie by Guillaume Geefs, Osborne
House [K56?] 
Sappho by James Pradier, Osborne House
[K52?] (piece at Great Exhibition was a later, virtually
identical, copy) 
Saïd Abdallah, de la Tribu de Mayac, Royaume
de Darfour by Charles Cordier, Osborne House [A47] 
Vénus africaine by Charlse Cordier, Osborne
House [C47] (note: a bust similar to this was paired with
the above at the Great Exhibition, it is not known if this is
the same subject). 
Dorothea by John Bell, Osborne House [Q28]
Babes in the Wood by John Bell, Osborne House
[R28]
BELGIUM
Godfrey of Bouillon, Royal Square, Brussels
[K55] 
The Unhappy Child by Eugène Simonis, Royal
Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels [K55] 
Psyche calling on love for help by Fraiken,
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels [J55] 
The young Giotto drawing by Joseph Tuerlinckx,
Museum
Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen [J57] 
Eve and her
children ("Le Premier Berceau") by Auguste Debay, Royal
Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium [B47] 
Cupid Captive by Charles Auguste Fraikin,
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique [J56] 
DENMARK
Adam and Eve after the fall by Jens Adolf
Jerichau, Glyptoteket Museum, Copenhagen [J68] 
Oreste by Herman Wilhelm Bissen, Glyptoteket
Museum, Copenhagen [L68] 
FRANCE
The City of Paris imploring God for the Victims
of Cholera by Antoine Etex, Chapel of the Salpetriere, Paris
[K53] (note: this sculpture appears at 02:00 into the linked
video)
Cupid clipping his wings by Jean-Marie
Bonnassieux, Louvre, Paris [B47] 
Bashful beggars by Democrito Gandolfi, musée
de Picardie, Amiens [O61] - note: dated 1854, assume
plaster model at Great Exhibition
Phryné by James Pradier, musée de Grenoble
[C47] 
GERMANY
Resting Deer by Christian Daniel Rauch,
Sanssoucitor, Wildpark, Potsdam [K62], [K57]
Horse and his master, Die Rossebändiger,
Stuttgart by Ludwig Von Hofer [K67] 
Bavarian Lion by Ferdinand Miller & Haldig, now part of quadriga on
Munich's Siegestor. [K66] (alternate model included in
simulation)
Figure from the Shrine of St. Sebald,
Nuremberg by Peter Vischer [K??]: 
IRELAND
Ino and the infant Bacchus by John Henry
Foley, Parian version at Castle Ward, County Down [R29] 
The Wanderer by John Henry Foley, National
Gallery of Ireland, Dublin [R28] 
ITALY
Cupid & Psyche by Benzoni, Modern Art
Gallery, Milan. [J47] 
Bust of Vincenzo Monti by Abbondio Sangiorgio,
Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano [O61] 
Atala and Chactas by Innocenzo Fraccaroli,
Castel Thun, Vigo di Ton [O61] 
David with the sling by Innocenzo Fraccaroli,
Fondazione Cariplo, Milan [O61] 
LUXEMBOURG
Bacchus by Lorenzo Nencini, Villa Vauban,
Luxembourg [J46]
NEW ZEALAND
USA
The Wounded Indian by Peter Stephenson WAS
(until 9 Aug 2023) at Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia [J75]
Fisher Boy by Hiram Powers, Smithsonian
American Art Museum [K70] 
Apollo Belvedere
(censored & hands complete) by Brucciani, University of
Kansas [D37] - note VR simulation currently using very
similar, but uncensored version from Statens Museum for Kunst
Innocence Protected by Fidelity, by Giovanni
Benzoni, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (not on
display) [J47] 
Venus at the bath by Richard James Wyatt,
Detroit Institute of Arts [K46] 
MODELS ALREADY INCLUDED IN THE VR SIMULATION:
Dancing faun by Lequesne, Jardin du
Luxembourg, Paris [J53] 
Wounded Achilles by Innocenzo Fraccaroli,
Galleria d'Arte Moderna Achille Forti, Verona [K59] 
William Wallace by Alexander Handyside Ritchie-
note: simulation uses copy in Baltimore [S9] 
Queen Victoria (also Prince Albert) (outside
St George's Hall, Liverpool) [O38] - note: very similar
(same sculptor), not the actual statue at the exhibition
Queen Victoria / Prince Albert [H37/H39] -
note: very similar, not the actual statues at the exhibition
(which were by James Wyatt) (Queen Victoria from St George's
Hall, Liverpool; Prince Albert from Windsor Great Park)
Highland Mary by Benjamin Edward Spence,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool [L46] 
Dog treading on snake, V&A Museum
(model provided by David Fletcher) [L30] 
Puck by John Graham Lough (V&A)
(model provided by David Fletcher) [Q37] 
Edward Jenner, Kensington Gdns, London
(model provided by David Fletcher) [J43] - note: the statue at
the exhibition was a model from which the final statue was
derived.
The Greek Huntsman by John Gibson, Lincoln
Museum & Usher Gallery (model provided by Oliver Laric) [R29] 
The Prodigal’s Return / The Prodigal Son by
William Theed, Lincoln Museum & Usher Gallery [S28] 
Torments of Cain by Louis Jehotte, Garden of
the Palace of the Academies, Brussels [K57] 
The Circassian Slave by Raffaele Monti (The
Wallace Collection) [M61] 
The Drunken Faun by John Hogan, Crawford Art
Gallery, Cork [R28] 
The Pet Dove's Return by James Farrell,
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork [S28] 
The Panther Hunter by Jens Adolf Jerichau,
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen [N61] 
Paolo and Francesco by Alexander Munro,
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery [R28] 
Sabrina by William Calder Marshall.
Copy at Roosevelt Island, New York [R28] 
Caïn et sa race maudits de Dieu by Antoine
Etex, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon [K53]
Susanna at her bath by James Heffernan,
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (substituting for version by
Antonio Galli) [O61] 
Shepherd, Sitting on a rock by Johan Peter
Molin, National Museum, Stockholm [L69] 
Venus by John Gibson, Fitzwilliam Museum,
Cambridge [Gallery: C33] 
Shakespeare by Giovanni Fontana (Leicester
Square Gardens, London) [K19] - note: similar, not the
actual statue at the exhibition 
Study for equestrian statue of
Christian IX by Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen at the State Museum of
Art, Copenhagen) [K6] (substituting for Horse's head by Carlo
Marochetti, which is believed lost)
Bust of Prince Albert by Edward Hodges Baily,
V&A [K6] (substituting for a similar bust by Carlo
Marochetti, which is believed lost) 
Bust of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Wellington, by John Francis, National Portrait Gallery
[K6] (substituting for a similar bust by Carlo Marochetti, which
is believed lost) 
Bust of Sir Robert Peel by Matthew Noble,
National Portrait Gallery [K6] (substituting for a similar
bust by Carlo Marochetti, which is believed lost) 
Death of a stag / Genius of Hunting by
Jean-Baptiste de Bay, Louvre, Paris [J54]
Joseph Radetzky by Anton Dominik
Fernkorn, Heldenberg Memorial Kleinwetzdorf [L61]
Amazon & Tiger, Altes Museum, Bodestraße
1-3, 10178 Berlin [K63] 
Libussa, Queen of Bohemia by Ludwig
Schwanthaler, National Museum, Prague [J64]
King George of Podebrady by Ludwig
Schwanthaler, National Museum, Prague [J64]
Recumbent Bacchante by Auguste Clésinger,
Petit Palais, Paris [B48] 
Horse’s head by Hamilton McCarthy [D39] (original believed lost,
simulation uses alternate from State Museum of Art, Copenhagen)
The Toilet of Atalanta by James Pradier,
Louvre [B47] 
Boy with Swan by Erdmann Theodor Kalide, (copy
at:) Osborne House [K64] (model in simulation is copy
located in Matejki Square, Chorzów, Poland - model provided by zachowajto.eu)
INACCESSIBLE OR NOT LOCATED / EXTANT
Venus and Cupid by Edward Davis
(Believed lost / destroyed in 1958) [K36] - Note: the Great
Exhibition version appears to have been a plaster model for a
sculpture executed in 1857. 
Jealousy of Medea by Mary
Thorneycroft [N37] 
Alfred the Great receiving a book of
Saxon poetry from his mother by Mary Thorneycroft [N39] 
Milton and his daughters by James
Legrew [G39] 
Michael with Satan conquered by
Edward Bowring Stephens [M37]
Satan tempting Eve by Edward Bowring
Stephens [M37] 
Murder of the Innocents by Peter
Hollins [H37]
Young Girl at Spring by William
Frederick Woodington [M39] 
Sleeping child with dog by Henry
Weekes [M39] 
Rizpah watching over the dead bodies
of her sons by Henry Stormonth Leifchild [D37] 
Samson bursting his bonds by James
Legrew [G37] 
The Shipwrecked Sailor-boy by Henry
Sibson [E37] 
Adam by Edward James Physick [H37] 
Prometheus Chained by S Wood [D39]
Ancient Briton by George Gammon
Adams [H39] 
Youthful Athlete by Edward
Richardson [G39]
Jacob & Rachel by Thomas Earle
[H39]
Resting after a run / girl with hoop
(portrait of Miss Reed) by Weekes [N39]
The suppliant by Weekes [N39]
The Forsaken by Andrew Hume Forrest
[G37] 
Cupid by Patrick MacDowell [N39]
Child at prayer by Patrick MacDowell
[O39]
The archangel Michael having subdued
Satan by John Graham Lough [J37] 
Titania by John Graham Lough [Q37] 
Ariel by John Graham Lough [Q37]
Jealousy of Oberon by John Graham
Lough [Q37] 
A nymph preparing for the bath by
Edward Hodges Baily [P37] 
A youth resting from the chase by
Edward Hodges Baily [O37] 
Cephalus and Procris by Joseph
Marias Ramus [C45] 
The Muse Polyhymnia by Carl Kesseler
[J65]
Liberation of Caractacus by
Constantine Panormo [L9]
Ariadne by William Boyton Kirk (may
exist as Worcester Parian ware statuette) [R29] 
Origin of the Dimple by William
Boyton Kirk [R29] 
L'Attaque by August Jean Baptiste
Lechesne [K56]
Deliverer by August Jean Baptiste
Lechesne [K56]
Canadian woman lamenting her child
by Leonard De Cuyper [L57] 
The Infant Moses by Leonard De
Cuyper [L56?] 
Cupid sharpening his arrows by
Johannes Leeb [N68] 
Queen Victoria in Zinc by Dantan /
Hardouin [K49] 
The Faithful Messenger by Joseph
Geefs [L56]
Murder of the Innocents by George
Gammon Adams [R29]
A group of children & animals by
J E Jones [R29] 
Rinaldo & Armida by Rinaldi
[J47]
Rinaldo & Armida by ???? [K43] 
Venus & disarmed Cupid by Joseph
Jaquet [J56]
Binding Mazeppa to a horse by
Giuseppe Pierotti of Milan [K58]
Learning to walk: the first step by
Pietro Magni [O61] 
Gratitude by M Benzoni [J47] 
Hagar and Ishmael by Villa [H47] 
Lion in Love by Guillaume Geefs, now in
private collection (where?) [L55] 
The Madona by Louis Jehotte
[L55]
Psyche by Pietro Feccia [L56] 
Madonna by Pierre Van Linden [M55] 
Love Triumphant by Angelo Bienaimé
[J46?] 
The Mourners / Medieval Revival by
John Graham Lough [K17] - note: maybe available as a miniature
(where?)
A nymph by Richard James Wyatt [J47]
The Startled Nymph by William Behnes
[R29] 
Early Sorrow by James Farrell [R29]
Oliver Twist by Peter Stephenson
[L74] 
Rebecca by William Theed [A34] 
Rosamonda by John Thomas [J28] 
Truth by Eugène Simonis [K56] 
Eve after the fall by Raffaele Monti
[O61] note: may be available as a miniature
Eve and the Serpent by Van der Ven
[M63] 
Boy and a Lizard by Thomas Sharp
[R28] 
Hebe and the eagle by Josef Kähsmann
[O61] 
Two girls fishing / Sister anglers
by Raffaele Monti [K59] 
Paolo and Francesco da Rimini by
Gaetano Motelli [N61] 
The Orphans (alternately: A group of
children) by Felix Martin Miller [K45] 
The Happy Child by Eugène Simonis
[K55] 
Whittington listening to Bow bells
by John Edward Carew [R29] 
Boy catching a Butterfly by
Frederick Thrupp [R29] 
Arethusa by Frederick Thrupp [R29] 
The Favourite by John Edward Jones
[R29]: 
Cupid ("Birth of the Rose") by
Benjamin Jennings [R29] - believed significantly damaged, now in
private collection: 
"Abel & Thyrsa"? [H37] 
Venus by John Flaxman [Gallery: C33]
Cupid by John Flaxman [Gallery: C33]
Virgin and child by Gasper van der
Hagen [??] 
The
Fortune Teller by Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann [O61?] 
Prayer by Charles Auguste Fraikin
[??] 
The dogs by Hamilton McCarthy
[Gallery:M10] 
The Indian Girl by Charles
Cumberworth [Gallery:C33] 
The Nubian Girl by Charles
Cumberworth [Gallery:C33] 
The Queen and the Prince of Wales by
John Bell [M19] 
Repentance, Faith and Resignation by
William Gillard [Gallery:C33] 
The Mother, the Child and the Eagle
by August Jean Baptiste Lechesne [??] 
Spring by Felix Martin Miller [??] 
The Attendant Spirit (from "Comus")
by Felix Martin Miller (bas-reflief) [R28] 
Shakespeare by John Bell [K19] (VR
simulation currently using statue in Leicester Square Gardens,
London)
The Dying Marmion / The Faithful
Knight by Thomas Jones Barker [Gallery:C33?] 
Genevieve of Brabant by Geefs [K52]
(Morning) Prayer by Alessandro
Puttinati [O61] 
L'Alma by Abbondio Sangiorgio [O61]
Michael overthrowing satan by Jean
Bernard Duseigneur [K52] 
Hero and Leander by Antoine Etex
[C42] 
Hercules and Antaeus by Antoine Etex
[K53] 
L'Astrologa by Ludwig Wilhelm
Wichmann [O61] 
Susanna at her bath by Antonio Galli,
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (not on display /
inaccessible) [O61] note: version by James Heffernan, Crawford
Art Gallery, Cork used as a substitute in VR simulation
Eve and her
children ("Le Premier Berceau") by Auguste Debay, Brodsworth
Hall, South Yorkshire [B47] (access denied)
Eve and her
children ("Le Premier Berceau") by Auguste Debay, Dahesh
Museum of Art, New York [B47] (museum closed - access
currently not possible)
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