Portrait Head of the Prime Minister
Created by William Reid Dick
Co-created by Edwin Landseer Lutyens
Date: 5 February 1944
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: head
Material: metal - bronze
Technique: cast
Description: Note that this is a replica of an original bronze portrait-head. It was produced by the artist at the request of the Royal Academy in c. 1942.
Exhibitions and other Events
Created for Leighton Fund (Royal Academy of Arts), 1896-1951
1942 - 1944
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Commissioned by Royal Academy of Arts
1942 (Presumed) - 5 February 1944
commissioned the work as a gift from the Academy to the Parish Council of Westerham, 'under the terms of the Leighton Fund' (see Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1944', 1945, p. 7)
Citing this record
'Portrait Head of the Prime Minister', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib4_1264773762, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
