Happy birthday Wolfgang, born today (27 January) in 1756.

In this sculpture, known as ‘Young Mozart’, the child prodigy is fiddling with a fiddle – he is known to have travelled widely as a child, performing for courts across Europe.

This image of the sculpture from the collection of the Royal College of Music is available on the Art UK website which is currently adding images of sculptures to their already huge database of publicly owned paintings. There are plenty more to follow, so watch their ever-growing collection for more …

Image, thanks to Art UK and Royal College of Music