Roberts painted this carefully composed work towards the end of his stay in London. It shows his classical education at the Royal Academy Schools and his study of earlier art. The figure of the sculptor is an allusion to the sculpture of Lorenzo Ghiberti and the Renaissance figura serpentina (a pose that Roberts would later repeat in Shearing the rams). Above all, the sculpture alluded to the elevation of art through craft, and of painting with sculpture. The model for the sculptor was Harry Bates, the most famous student of the time.
Thomas William Roberts (Dorchester, England, 9 March 1856 - Kallista, near Melbourne, Australia, 14 September 1931) was an Australian painter. He is associated with both Realism and Impressionism. Roberts painted many landscapes and genre works in which he often depicted ordinary Australian workers.
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