Watch List notes:

*Great Britain, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, The Lawrence Memorial Medal, 1898, in gold, cast and chased, by Alfred Gilbert, awarded to T.J. Horder, facing bust of Sir William Lawrence within scrolled cartouche; st bartholomews hospit william lawrence 1783-1867 around, rev., a naked youth pushing through shields held by draped allegorical figures who point to a Greek inscription ("ever to excel"); inscribed above, t. j. horder and dated below 1898, 55.5mm, 22ct., 100.70g (BDM II, 263 and VII, 261), minor edge marks, extremely fine and extremely rare (in an Art Union case). Sir Thomas Jeeves Horder, later Baron Horder of Ashford (1871-1955) whose career mostly centred at St. Bartholomew's, held Royal Appointments to three monarchs, lastly that of Extra Physician to Elizabeth II. The Lawrence Memorial scholarship was initiated in 1873 with a medal first awarded in 1876. The Lawrence family evidently so disliked the portrait that in 1891 Gilbert was commissioned to produce a new one. The plaster and a gold medal were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897. Gilbert was involved in the production of the first four, only two of which appear to have survived – this example and one in 18ct. gold in the possession of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Gilbert fled to Belgium in 1901 to escape his creditors and all subsequent medals were aftercasts in 9ct. gold.

Estimate: £3,000 - 3500