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In 'Sculptors of the Day', published in 1880, Miller is recorded as being at the Art School, South Kensington Museum: he was Master in the Modelling Class from about 1860 to 1880. Mentioned in the obituary of the sculptor Henry Foley in the 'Art Journal' of 1874, Miller was described as 'one of the few sculptors whose genius is manifest and who has produced works, chiefly bas-reliefs, that are unsurpassed by any production of their class in modern Art: Foley thought so well of Miller that he commissioned more than one of his works in marble: indeed the great artist was the principal patron of his struggling brother-artist'.\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Carved in relief with the subject of Ariel. 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The subject was one used by Miller in a number of compositions exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1850 and 1870. In 1852 Miller exhibited \"Ariel bas-relief in marble etc.\", possibly the present piece.","historicalContext":"The subject is taken from Shakespeare's \"The Tempest\".","briefDescription":"Panel, marble, partly gilt, carved in relief, with the subject of Ariel, by Felix Martin Miller (active 1842-1880), English, ca. 1855","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1856. <u>In</u>: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I</u>. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 41."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bilbey, Diane and Trusted, Marjorie, <u>British Sculpture 1470-2000. 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