Saint George

Exhibition history

London, Royal Academy, Alfred Gilbert: Sculptor and Goldsmith, Mar. 29-June 1986, cat. 72.

Publications

Richard Dorment, Alfred Gilbert (Yale University Press, 1985), 199. Rirchard Dorment, Alfred Gilbert, Sculptor and Goldsmith, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Art, 1986), 164.

Quick Overview

Artist: Alfred Gilbert (English, 1854–1934)
Date: Cast 1899
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H.: 45.7 cm (18 in.); Including base: H.: 53 cm (20 7/8 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: sculpture
Style: new sculpture movement
Place: England
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Purchased with funds provided by the Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation and Anne Searle Bent; European Painting and Sculpture Fund; purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor, the Alsdorf Foundation, and Frances and Edward Blair
Accession no.: 2025.210

Provenance

The artist; sold to Robert Dunthorne, 1899; sold to William Vivian, 1899; by descent to Prudence Molesworth-St Aubyn; by descent to private collection, Great Britain; sold through Patrick Bourne & Co., London, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.