Artist: Felix Martin Miller (British, 1820-1880)
Medium: Antique engraving on wove paper after the original bas- relief by master engraver John H Baker (British, 1829-c.1872).
Dimensions: Image Size 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 17 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Bas-relief of Titania, lying asleep in profile to right on a poppy plant, the stem bent under her weight, the flower above her head; crown and scepter lying on poppy leaf below; star at top center, crescent moon at top right.
Felix Martin Miller (1820-1880) was active between 1842 and 1880. In ‘Sculptors of the Day’, published in 1880, Miller is recorded as being at the Art School, South Kensington Museum: he was Master in the Modelling Class from about 1860 to 1880. Mentioned in the obituary of the sculptor Henry Foley in the ‘Art Journal’ of 1874, Miller was described as ‘one of the few sculptors whose genius is manifest and who has produced works, chiefly bas-reliefs, that are unsurpassed by any production of their class in modern Art: Foley thought so well of Miller that he commissioned more than one of his works in marble: indeed the great artist was the principal patron of his struggling brother-artist’.lly Guaranteed to be Certified as Described