William Reid Dick
Kelpie Conceived c.1909, cast c. 1920 Signed and Dated ‘Reid Dick 1920’. Bronze with a green patina on a marble plinth 10 x 11 1/2 x 4 1/4 in 25.4 x 29.2 x 10.8 cm
Provenance Sir William Reid Dick R.A. and thence by descent to his daughter Ann Benton and thence by descent to her children. Exhibitions The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Ninth, 1925, as 'The Kelpie'. Exhibited at The Eighty-First Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1926-1927, £47 5s. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, 1961, no.1286 as 'Nymph'.