Purchase of a Bust of Charles Townley (1807)

Towneley Hall wishes to purchase a bust of the collector Charles Townley by the neoclassical sculptor Joseph Nollekens. The bust is currently the subject of an export stop.

Bust of Charles Townley by Joseph Nollekens
Bust of Charles Townley by Joseph Nollekens
Region
North West
Grant awarded
£178,000
Year awarded
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Charles Townley returns to Towneley Hall

Marjorie Trusted, Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London will give a short talk at the reception.

This Carrara marble bust was saved from being exported to Yale University in the United States thanks to generous benefactors after an energetic fundraising drive by Burnley Council.