William Weddell, the British artistocrat who purchased the statue of Athena on a Grand Tour of Rome ... British travelers as depicted by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, who remarked on the large number ...
According to artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland, who encountered Weddell ... gallery to house his antiquities, in which the Athena statue was installed in a salmon-hued niche for some 260 years.
The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...