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As it's his 265th birthday, I thought I'd take the opportunity to re-post this photo of F.W. Pomeroy's beautiful 1895 statue of the great man from Fountain Gardens in Paisley. If you choose to partake, enjoy your haggis, neeps and tatties!
Marguerite at the Sabbath (c. 1912) by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (French artist, lived 1852–1929). Faust attended a Sabbath with Mephistopheles. From the fires of hell Marguerite, pale as a specter, stands up, her child dead in her arms. The model posing for this work was Suzanne Delvé.
The Ploughboy of the Western World: F.W. Pomeroy's beautiful 1895 sculpture of Robert Burns in Fountain Gardens in Paisley. Pomeroy was a leading member of the New Sculpture Movement of the late 1800s, which aimed to portray figures in a more naturalistic way, in contrast to the prevailing neoclassical way. This, I think, is a fine example of this approach to sculpture.