Physical Energy @ Kensington Gardens, photo by PH Morton

Physical Energy @ Kensington Gardens, photo by PH Morton

Physical Energy is a bronze sculpture by an English artist, George Frederic Watts.  Apparently Watts first casts the statue in plaster marquette, which now stands at the Watts Gallery, just 2 years before his death in 1902.  There are three bronze statues from the casts.  One is now in London (at Kensington Gardens), the second is in Cape Town, South Africa and the third is in Harare.

Physical Energy according to Watts is a symbol of “that restless physical impulse to seek the still unachieved in the domain of material things”.

This description was deemed apt for Cecil Rhodes, who made his fortune before he was 30 years old.

Physical Energy @ Kensington Gardens, photo by PH Morton

Physical Energy @ Kensington Gardens, photo by PH Morton