Raffaelo Monti was an Italian

Italy

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 sculptor/author/poet

Sculpture

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 born in Milan

Milan

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. He studied under his father, the noted sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti

Gaetano Matteo Monti

Gaetano Matteo Monti was an Italian sculptor, working in the Neoclassical style.He studied in Bologna and Rome and then moved to Milan, where he worked on Milan Cathedral and the Arco della Pace with a similarly named Milanese sculptor, Gaetano Monti .His son was the sculptor Raffaelle...

. By way of Vienna

Vienna

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 and Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, he came to London

London

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 in 1848, and settled there.

He exhibited at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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, and Monti soon earned recognition for his piece for the Duke of Devonshire

Duke of Devonshire

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, the "Veiled Vestal." A bust based on this work, cast in Parian porcelain by Copeland, was issued in 1861 by the Crystal Palace Art Union.

Monti produced sculptures working in marble

Marble

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, but he also created in metals and porcelain

Porcelain

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, while he remained active in the applied arts.

Works

• • "Veiled Vestal" 1847 Chatsworth House
    Chatsworth House
    Chatsworth House is a stately home in North Derbyshire, England, northeast of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield . It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to his family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick settled at Chatsworth in 1549.Standing on the east bank of the...
    
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• • "A Circassian Slave in the Market Place at Constantinople" 1850 Wallace Collection
    Wallace Collection
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• • "Veritas" 1853 Medeiros e Almeida Museum Medeiros de Almeida Foundation, Lisbon
    Lisbon
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    , Portugal
    Portugal
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• • "River Thames" 1854 St John's Lock
    St John's Lock
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     on the River Thames
    River Thames
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     below Lechlade
    Lechlade
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     Originally for the fountains at The Crystal Palace
    The Crystal Palace
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     Sydenham

• • Proscenium Arch 1858 Royal Opera House
    Royal Opera House
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• • "Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
    Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
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     1858 Market Place, Durham
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• • "The Sleep of Sorrow and the Dream of Joy" 1861 Victoria and Albert Museum
    Victoria and Albert Museum
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• • "Veiled Lady" 1860 Minneapolis Institute of Arts
    Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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