Pair of Polychrome Painted Plaster Figures by Robert Shout

Pair of Chinoiserie Polychrome Painted Plaster Figures by Robert Shout.

SIGNED AND DATED 1809.

Height 9” (23 cm ).

The standing male and female figures are depicted in traditional costume and are both holding vases. The bases are faux marble.

Robert Shout (1764-1843) 18 High Holborn, London.  Statuaries and Masons.

Robert was clearly in business under his own name by 1803 if not before, even though he was operating in partnership with his uncle. Using his trade label, he advertised ‘His old established manufactory and spacious shew-rooms at 18 High Holborn. He offered ‘Grecian, Roman and Egyptian figures ,,,, together with several hundred figures, busts, vases, medallions etc from the antique, and likenesses of distinguished Modern Personages, made to imitate Bronze, Terra Cota Stone etc.’

His catalogue of 1800-1803 advertised more than 300 plaster figures.

Among his many patrons were Lord Monson, The Duke of Atholl, Edward Lascelles junior and Sir John Soane.

The Shout family of statuaries, masons and plaster figure makers, Benjamin Shout.

 ( d.1811), his nephew Robert and Robert’s son, Charles Lutwyche Shout (1794-1855)  flourished over three generations from the late 1780s until the early 1830s.

An extensive account of the Shout family appears in the records of the National Portrait Gallery with a grateful acknowledgement to Sir Timothy Clifford who has studied the family.

This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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