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Diana the Huntress
Joseph Nollekens 1737-1823
Signed and dated 1778
Marble
London
Commissioned by the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham for the sculpture gallery at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire
Museum no. A.5-1986

This work, showing the Roman goddess of hunting, is the first freestanding sculpture of a mythological subject executed by a British artist. Until this time sculpture in Britain consisted mainly of portrait busts and funerary monuments.

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