Mr. Toad

Fine Georgian marble bust of Major General Montagu-Roger Burgoyne, the 8th baronet of Sutton, Signed G. Garrard. Sculp, 1818. Sir Montagu-Roger Burgoyne, eighth baronet (d. 1817), army officer, was, like his father, a cavalry officer who rose to the rank of major-general. He entered the army as cornet in the Scots Greys in 1789, and in 1795 became lieutenant-colonel ofthe 32nd light dragoon guards. He was afterwards an inspecting field officer of yeomanry and volunteer corps. On 1 November 1791 he married Catherine (1772/3?1855), daughter of John Burton of Owlerton, Yorkshire; they had three sons and three daughters. Burgoyne died at his mother's house on Oxford Street, London, on 11 August 1817, whereupon the baronetcy passed to his eldest son, John-Montagu Burgoyne George Garrard ARA (31 May 1760 – 8 October 1826) was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter, modeller, sculptor, engraver and printmaker. He played a major role in lobbying Parliament to introduce legislation to protect the copyright of works by modellers of animal and human figures. Garrard came from a family of artists, tracing his descent back to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (c. 1561/62–1636) who was a painter to Queen Elizabeth I of England. He studied art first under a well-known drawing-master called Joseph Simpson,[3] then with Sawrey Gilpin, and in 1778 became a student of the Royal Academy, where, in 1781, he first exhibited some pictures of horses...

Very fine carved hammerhead shark executed in vividly grained exotic hardwood on naturalistic stand.

A handsome 19th century swift with beautiful fruitwood base on ball feet and matching turned acorn finial, brass centre rod and wooden collapsible ribs with original silk ties. Used ...

A late 19th century-early 20th century carousel zebra by eminent creater Karl Muller in carved, painted wood. Ex-coll. Muller/Thummel studio in Molbitz, Ge...

A pair of Japanese bronze toads. Age: Japan, Contemporary Size: Height 10.5 C.M. / Width 16.5 C.M. / Length 20.3 C.M. Condition: Nice condition overall.

For Alexander and many English people the frog and toad live in memory as the wonderful characters of Jeremy Fisher from Beatrix Potter, and Toad of Toad Hall from The Wind in the Wi...

Wonderful large bronze statue of a pair of frogs - or toads - salsa dancing Cast from green bronze with a great patina Good size at 3.5 feet tall - 101 CM As bronze can live outside ...

Charming Italian ceramic toad sitting on a tile Four inch square tile with a superbly tactile blue toad atop Understood to have been privately commission...