Art Nouveau patinated bronze figure The Lass of Dee by Charles Leonard Hartwell RA

Art Nouveau patinated bronze figure The Lass of Dee by Charles Leonard Hartwell RA honouring the poem The Sands of Dee by Charles Kingsley written in 1850. A richly patinated and finely cast figure showing Mary calling the cattle home as in the poem. One of my favourite poems . Signed in the marble base. Stands on a stepped marble base. English c 1910-20. Excellent original condition
History
Charles Leonard Hartwell 1873-1951
Sculptor, stone carver, architectural sculptor, sculptor’s assistant
Born in Blackheath, London. He was the son of Richard Pyne Hartwell (1838-1893, his middle name was also spelled Pine), a butcher. Charles studied at the South London Technical School of Art under William Silver Frith and then at the Royal Academy Schools from 1896. Hartwell also worked as an assistant to Edward Onslow Ford and William Hamo Thornycroft. Charles was related by marriage to the wood carver and teacher, John ‘Jack’ Linehan (born 1865, active between 1885 and 1937). Linehan married Charles’ sister, Florence in 1903.

Hartwell’s major commissions included the war memorial at Newcastle-on-Tyne; the Sussex Regional Memorial; the Sports Club Memorial; statues of the Bishop of Capetown and Sir Frank Swettenham; he also made the memorial tablet in Hopton wood stone and bronze to William Hamo Thornycroft in St Paul’s Cathedral.
Date -English c 1910-1920
Condition In excellent original condition
Dimensions – Approx height 48 cm
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