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Sir Edward Denison Ross
2 of 6 portraits by Frank Kovacs
Photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Sir Edward Denison Ross
by Frank Kovacs
plaster medallion, circa 1939
5 1/8 in. x 4 7/8 in. (129 mm x 125 mm)
Purchased, 1961
Primary Collection
NPG 4203a
Artistback to top
- Frank Kovacs (died 1965), Sculptor, medallist and Calvinist minister. Artist or producer of 6 portraits.
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Kovacs worked by cutting straight into plaster to produce a model from which a bronze could be taken. He had completed a finished plaster study before Sir Denison Ross left for Turkey in 1939 to take up an appointment at the British embassy in Istanbul. Kovacs later sold the Gallery both the plaster and a bronze cast, and then presented a related drawing.
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- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 533
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Current affairs
Britain goes to war. The German invasion of Poland demonstrated that the policy of appeasement had failed. After refusing to meet Britain's ultimatum to withdraw troops, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Second World War had begun.Art and science
The Sutton Hoo burial ship is discovered. Apparently following a dream, Mrs Pretty invited the archaeologist Basil Brown to investigate a series of burial mounds on her estate on the banks of the river Deben in Suffolk. The excavation revealed an Anglo-Saxon burial, uncovering the most significant horde of early medieval artefacts found in Britain (now housed at the British Museum).International
The Second World War begins. Germany's invasion of Poland prompted Britain and France to declare war forming the core of the Allied powers. As part of the Soviet-Nazi Pact, the Soviet Union joined the war on the German side, helping, with Italy, to form the Axis Powers. Poland was soon overpowered and the Baltic Republics and Finland were invaded by the Soviet Union.Comments back to top
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