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Dugdale, who were both from Devon. George Durant was a successful silk broker and on at least one occasion the family spent a winter in Rome which encouraged Susan Durant's interest in sculpture. She moved to Paris where she trained in the studio of Baron
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has a plaster version. The bust, showing Stowe garlanded with grape leaves and wearing a shawl fastened by a cameo broach of her husband, helped enhance Durant's reputation. The Stowe portrait and a 1863 medallion of
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During her life, Durant promoted equal access for women to education, the vote and to professional careers. Among her last known works was a bust, now lost, of
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