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silla was born out of a passion for beautiful objects: special pieces with aesthetic and historical significance. In 2009, after years of collecting, Andrew Silla and his wife Grace began to work privately with clients from their residence in Southern Maryland. Quickly outgrowing the space, the business was moved from Maryland to Pennsylvania in 2012 and after several warehouse location changes it was firmly settled in the present brick-and-mortar location in downtown Shippensburg.

The 9000 square foot brick-and-mortar gallery is home to a large collection of works of art and estate jewelry. We specialize in sculpture circa 1860 through 1930 with a particular emphasis on the Animaliers and as such the gallery always has a very large collection of exceptional European and American sculpture available on display.

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Marioton, Eugene

Eugéne Marioton was born in Paris on April 7th of 1857, brother to the likewise famous sculptor Claudius Marioton. They enjoyed strong reputations and careers, Eugéne’s stretching over a fifty year period with his debut at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1882 where he continued to exhibit regularly through 1922.  Both he and his brother studied under Augustin Alexandre Dumont, and he further was pupil to Thomas and Bonnassieux.  He won bronze medals at the 1889 and 1900 Exposition Universelle and a traveling scholarship in 1888.  He specialized in small bronze works, mostly figural studies that were academic and executed in the Romantic taste.  Of these, a majority were cast by the E. Colin and Siot-Decauville foundries, both prolific and highly skilled firms. 

Further Reading and Literature:

  • Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century: Dictionary of Sculptors, Pierre Kjellberg, 1994, p. 458-460
  • Art Bronzes, Michael Forrest,1988, p. 479
  • The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze, James Mackay, 1977, p. 250
  • E. Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Vol. IX, Gründ, 2006, p. 295