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The cost of the sculpture, according to Bartolini’s accounts, was 500 luigi, about £500. The young women’s uncle, Lady Charlotte’s brother, the 6th Duke of Argyll, could have commissioned it.  The identities of the sculpted figures were established by the writer Mary Berry (1763-1852). She wrote in her Journal on 7 June, 1821: ‘Dined at the Lockes with Bartolini, at whose house we had been to see … two of the young Campbells, Emma and Julia, grouped as dancers, now modelled in terra cotta. The pose of the figures is really charming, and the drapery simple and flowing, without affectation.’  \r\n\r\nAfter the death of Antonio Canova in 1822, Lorenzo Bartolini was arguably the greatest living Italian sculptor. He was virtually without an artistic rival in the field of sculpture in his native land from 1838 until his death in 1850. Specialising in portraiture, but also producing mythological and genre subjects in marble, Bartolini combined a pure classicist style with the naturalism which came from his training and working in France.\r\n","physicalDescription":"This figure group, on an integral circular base (h. 170cm.), carved in Carrara marble, depicts two young women, Emma and Julia Campbell, in flowing high-waisted décolleté dresses and sandals. They turn towards each other, stepping forward in a dance. The gnarled tree trunk between them is inscribed with the sculptor’s name and a dedication to the British artist John Flaxman (1755-1826): ‘BARTOLINI / FECE / E DEDICÒ / FLAXMAN’. The whole is set on a circular white marble plinth adorned with garlands of flowers (92 x 98 x 78 cm.). 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It was probably commissioned by Lady Charlotte Campbell (1777-1861) and her brother George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll (1768-1839). It almost certainly entered the collection of the 6th Duke at Inverary Castle, Argyll, on the West coast of Scotland, in about 1822; thence by descent. 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