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From 1850 to 1857 he was chief designer to Hoole &amp; Co., Sheffield, where he produced award-winning designs for metalwork, majolica, terracotta ornaments and chimney-pieces. Perhaps his two greatest works were the decorations for the dining-room at Dorchester House, London (about 1856), for which he made countless drawings inspired by the Italian High Renaissance style, in particular the work of Michelangelo and the monument to the Duke of Wellington for St Paul's Cathedral, London, which was completed after his death. 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On Private Bagshawe's death in 1919, as no living relatives could be traced at that time, Professor Schwabe gave them to the museum in 1934. Subsequently Private Bagshawe's sister and heir came forward and the figures were bought from her (for 25) a year later in 1935, the original registration numbers being retained. According to Towndrow, Bagshawe's father was 'one of Stevens's Sheffield cirlce' (Towndrow 1939, p. xvii).","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Model, plaster cast, for the left-hand caryatid figure on the Dorchester House mantelpiece, by Alfred Stevens, England, ca. 1873","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Review [1911-1938], <u>Victoria & Albert Museum. Review of the Principal Acquisitions during the Year</u>, London, 1934, p. 5"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Bilbey, Diane and Trusted, Marjorie. <u>British Sculpture 1470-2000. 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