Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, 1852 - 1936. Writer and traveller
About this artwork
This dramatic bronze bust, with its magnificent whiskers, suggests the exuberant dynamism of the sitter - the writer, radical politician and traveller Cunninghame Graham. He travelled extensively in Europe, North and South America and North Africa, his devotion to Latin America earning him the nickname 'The Gaucho.' In Argentina, a city was named 'Don Roberto' in his honour. He was an ardent supporter of Scottish home rule and was elected the first President of the National Party of Scotland.
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artist:Albert ToftEnglish (1862 - 1949)
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title:Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, 1852 - 1936. Writer and traveller
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date created:1891
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materials:Bronze
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measurements:68.50 cm (height)
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credit line:Presented by Rear Admiral A.B. Cunninghame Graham 1945
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accession number:PG 1468
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Albert Toft
Albert Toft
Toft was born in Birmingham and was apprenticed as a modeller first at Elkington and then at the Wedgwood pottery in Staffordshire. He attended evening classes at art schools in Hanley and in Newcastle-under-Lyme and won a scholarship to the National Art Training School in South Kensington in...