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Thornycroft admired the so-called Elgin or Parthenon marbles, which had arrived in Great Britain in 1806, and his early works were in a Greek style. With Teucer, he sought to emulate the grandeur of Frederic, Lord Leighton’s Athlete, also an attempt to depict a monumental ideal nude. Leighton, in turn, would respond to Teucer with the sculpture The Sluggard, also included in the Wilder collection. Teucer was ultimately cast in several sizes for both public and private settings—a practice common among sculptors of the time. When Teucer was first exhibited, the critic Edmund Gosse wrote that it had “something almost archaic about its serenity and rigidity . . . this is courageously realistic.”


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