THE autumn will have a run of fairs in London and elsewhere, so, this week, I offer a few highlights from the first four.
Count Émilien de Nieuwerkerke (1811–92) was a sculptor whose career encapsulated the political vicissitudes of 19th-century France. The son of a Dutch aristocrat who had attached himself to the restored Bourbons in 1815, he was made a page to Charles X in 1825 and then entered the royal cavalry school. However, the 1830 revolution ended his military career before it had properly begun and, after a short-lived marriage, he travelled in Italy. There, he encountered many exiled French Legitimists, including the
