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Bishop George Mueller, an early advocate for Ney’s work, commissioned Ney to create a statue of the fourth–century Christian martyr Saint Sebastian for the Episcopal Diocesan Museum of Münster. The sculpture was Ney’s first professional commission…

Ludwig II, Ney’s major patron, commissioned this life-size portrait statue of himself. In this work the young king is depicted in the full regalia of the Order of Saint Hubert. The final marble copy, carved by German stonecutter Friedrich Ochs after…

Marble portrait of Edmund Montgomery, modeled 1864, cut 1895-1904. Soon after their marriage on the Portuguese island of Madeira, Ney modeled a plaster bust of her husband. The inscribed date indicates the year the plaster was modeled, from which…

Ney made several life casts of her face, neck, and shoulders in the 1860s. She used these to craft this piece years later. Cut in Europe in 1903, this marble bust is Ney’s only known self-portrait.