A Model Portrait, Bust of the Late Lord Frederick Cavendish
Created by G. Fiaschi
Object class: sculpture
Object type: bust
Description: 'This may be the same bust now in Buxton Town Hall, inscribed on the plinth 'Lord Frederick Cavendish. Presented by Cavaliere Froehlich, Italian Consul, Manchester, 26 June 1889' (this was the day of the opening of the Town Hall). Froehlich, visiting Buxton shortly before, heard of the new hall and offered the Chairman of Buxton Local Board the bust and a marble plinth as an appreciation of the town and in honour of the Cavendishes. (See Glossop-dale Chronicle, No. 1512 (29 June 1889), p. 7.) Buxton Town Hall also has a clock tower in memory of the late Frederick Cavendish, who was assassinated at Dublin in 1882.'
Information supplied by Judith LeGrove, March 2011.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Corporation of Manchester Art Gallery, Royal Institution, First Autumn Exhibition, 1883
Lent by Chevalier Robert Froelich, Italian Consul in Manchester
Citing this record
'A Model Portrait, Bust of the Late Lord Frederick Cavendish', 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=msib5_1221137700, accessed 30 May 2023]
