[ Edward William Wyon, sculptor. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('Edward W Wyon') to R. Redpath, praising Sir Francis Chantrey as a 'great Master of Portrait Sculpture', and his statue of 'a Bishop kneeling' [ Reginald Heber. ].

Wyon studied at the Royal Academy schools from 1829, and became a celebrated sculptor, exhibiting at the Royal Academy regularly from 1831 to 1876. Among his commissions were works intended for reproduction by Wedgwood as well as numerous portrait busts. 1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. The subject of the letter is Chantrey's 1847 statue of Reginald Heber (1783-1826), Bishop of Calcutta, now in St Paul's Cathedral in that city. The letter begins: 'If the Statue you allude to is that of a Bishop kneeling as I take it to be it is Chantrey's work & one of his best.' If it were his 'good fortune' to exercise his 'poor abilities on a like subject', it would be his 'earnest endeavour to catch something of the Spirit of that great Master of portrait Sculpture'.