Martyrs, Elisabeth Frink, 1986
SCULPTURE
The Society has two portrait busts of the 3rd and 4th Earls of Shaftesbury by Scheemakers. There are two plaster models Truth and Falsehood, Valour and Cowardice by Alfred Stevens, which he made when working on his commission for the Wellington Monument in St Paul’s Cathedral. Truth is shown tearing the tongue out of the mouth of Falsehood, and Valour is trampling Cowardice underfoot. The vigorous strength of these groups evokes the power of Michelangelo.
The Society has maquettes of animals by John Skeaping, and Elizabeth Frink‘s Martyrs, commemorating all in Dorset who have died for their faith. Eizabeth Frink lived in Dorset along with two other women sculptors represented in the collection, Mary Spencer Watson and Elizabeth Muntz.