Can anyone identify the subject of the bronze bust on the right, the woman with the initials GRC?
It is a small bronze portrait bust by sculpture artist Catherine Wentworth. Wentworth lived from 1865-1948.
Thanks in advance
The dude on the left looks like a bit like an idealized neoclassical Napoleon Bonaparte. Not sure about GRC, and Google has failed me.
Impressionist, and her portraits seem to show the same lady… so consider it a selfie, an impressionist selfie (can’t be distinguished from also including her family members as the subject, even if its a sister in law or step mother…she might squash non-family into the one model she uses.
There is a photo of her in her studio https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.19089/
short or tied up curled hair. High eyebrows, similar nose, similar chin with the similar smile lines/jowl lines … like in various moods or ages of life … changes the look to be of a thin or wellfed lady, but seemingly theres the same lady in behind the impressionist effects.
random portrait she did. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/painting-catherine-denkman-wentworth-521-c-e4a7caf810 … see the similarity ?
There is a record for the Gorham bronze division …it might provide more clue as to what GRC could be.
here Gorham Manufacturing Company, Bronze Division records, [ca. 1905-1978] | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution