Sculpture plays an important role in the decoration of many of the National Trust’s houses and gardens.
A selection of properties to visit with examples of sculpture:
From important Graeco-Roman sarcophagi to the breathtaking fin-de-siecle fountains at Ascott, Cliveden and Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, the National Trust owns significant individual pieces.
Examples are the Leconfield Aphrodite at Petworth House in West Sussex, Flaxman’s Fury of Athamas at Ickworth in Suffolk, the Rysbrack marbles and terracottas at Stourhead in Wiltshire and Canova’s Amorini at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.
Farnborough Hall in Warwickshire has a collection of Classical sculpture, Kingston Lacy in Dorset a collection of Egyptian artefacts and at Petworth House there is a surviving 19th-century sculpture gallery with an outstanding collection of antique and early 19th-century British sculpture.
Bronzes can be seen at Anglesey Abbey, Waddesdon Manor and Kingston Lacy.
The Goldfinger collection at 2 Willow Road, London contains works of sculpture by Henry Moore, Alberto Giacometti and Max Ernst.
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