Metello Motelli
Active: 1855 - 1883
Country of birth and death: Italy
Sculptor
Worked in Milan. May be related to a 'G. Motelli' of Milan with an address at 183 Regent Street, London who exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1846. [Algernon Graves, 'A Dictionary of Artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions of oil paintings from 1760-1880', p. 166. N.B. the Graves Dictionary of 1906 combines both sculptors' work under one entry for G. Motelli] He exhibited two sculptures 'A Prayer' and 'An Awkward Surprise' at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876. He also created wall monument in bronze and stone to Giuseppe Garibaldi in Saronno, Lombardy, which was unveiled in 1883. [http://www.comune.saronno.va.it/servizi/menu/dinamica.aspx?idArea=16417&idCat=16464&ID=18618, accessed 25 October 2009]
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
Exhibited once, 'St. Cecilia', marble (no. 1500)
Exhibited at International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Dublin, 1865
no. 85. 'Caged Cupids' - marble.
Offered for sale 60-0-0.
no. 96. 'St. Cecelia' - marble.
Sources
Official Catalogue of Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures 1865
1865
p. 105
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Seventh, 1855
1855
p.55
Citing this record
'Metello Motelli', 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/person.php?id=msib7_1220374487, accessed 03 Mar 2021]
