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Garrick was an influential English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer. He promoted realistic acting departing from the bombastic style which had been popular.\r\n\r\nDuring the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, low relief portraits in wax became popular in Britain and they were often exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of Artists and elsewhere. Waxes were used in a similar way to prints and medals, in order to disseminate the image of the sitter, or, like miniature paintings or silhouettes as portable mementoes.","physicalDescription":"The profile relief of the actor, in cream wax on dark red painted glass, is shown facing to the right. He wears an open shirt and an actor's jacket with ribbed sleeves.  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Bought from Philip Bate for £120.\r\n\r\nJohn May (dealer) 40, Kensington Church Street, London W8 4BX sold a box with grisaille enamel painting of Garrick on the lid, based on the same source as this wax (June 1988).","historicalContext":"John May (dealer), 40 Kensington Church St, London, W8 4BX sold a box with a grisaille enamel painting of Garrick on the lid, based on the same source as this wax (June 1988).","briefDescription":"Relief, Wax, English, by Robert Stewart (d.1784),","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Pyke, E.J. <u>Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers</u>, Oxford, 1973, p.142"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[{"text":"Garrick, David","id":"N2002"}],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["A.37-1970"],"accessionNumberNum":"37","accessionNumberPrefix":"A","accessionYear":1970,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-12-04","recordCreationDate":"2004-03-18","availableToBook":true}}