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Turner modelled works to be cast in bronze as well as carving many different types of stone. Here, the smooth surfaces of the figures make a deliberate contrast with the rough block on which they sit.\r\n\r\nAlfred Turner trained at the South London Technical Art School under W. S. Frith (1850-1924) and worked for a time as assistant to Harry Bates (1850-1899). In 1895 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. Spielmann described Turner as a 'highly successful student of the Lambeth and Royal Academy schools, who has also studied abroad ... [and is] among the most promising of the youngest generation of sculptors now before the public'. This work is based on a smaller group exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy in 1934 (Mus. no. 1591).\r\n\r\nTurner, who taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy between 1905 and 1937. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1922, and became a Royal Academician in 1931. His diploma work, <i>Dreams of Youth</i>, is in the Royal Academy's permanent collection. His daughter Winifred was a successful sculptor in her own right. Her bronze figure of a <i>Crouching Youth</i> is also in the Museum's collections (Mus. no. A.12-1981). The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, held a joint exhibition of work by father and daughter in 1988.","physicalDescription":"The mother is shown hieratically, dressed in a simple classicising robe, seated with bent arms, her forearms raised. She gestures with her hands, her left hand pointing upwards as if requesting silence. 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