France. LA FORTUNE – CLUB DU VOILE, VILLE FRANCHE. (Sailing Club). By Francis Sargant. Bronze 96mm. $450. Sorry, SOLD (January, 2021) ——— Francis William Sargant was born in Hampstead, London on January 10 1870. He was the younger brother of the painter and pioneer of ‘true’ fresco technique, Mary Sargant-Florence (1857-1954). After studying at New College, Oxford, Sargant studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (1895-6) under Dressler and Sir George Frampton and then in Florence and Munich (1899-1903) under the German sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand. Sargant spent most of his career in Italy, where he had a studio in Florence interrupted only by World War I. He was a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Starting in 1919, he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy. He also exhibited in Paris, Munich (where he was awarded a gold medal in 1904), Vienna and Venice. He sculpted in stone and bronze, but his preferred medium was marble. Sargant’s most noted works are a memorial to Florence Nightingale in the Church of Santa Croce executed in 1913 and a series of memorial reliefs for the memorial of World War I in the chapel at Oakham School (1925-6), where his sister contributed some frescoes. He died in Cambridge on January 11 1960.