Sunday 7 June 2015

Charles Phillips - Busts and Statues in the Paintings


Busts and Statues in the Paintings of Charles Philips (1708 - 47).

Strong Family 1732
Oil on canvas 72.4 x 94cms
Metropolitan Museum, New York.
The inscriptions on the frame indicate that the family is that of Edward Strong, master mason of Saint Paul's Cathedral.

George II in the library at St James Palace,
Oil on canvas, 112 x 86 cms.
English Heritage, Marble Hill House,
Purchased from Agnew's 1971.
 Two Gentlemen
Oil on Canvas 73 x 61cms
Signed and dated on the base of the bust Philips/ Pinx/ 1736.
Sold Sotheby's Lot 7, 9th July 2009.

Charles Lennox 2nd Duke of Richmond. c 1750.
Oil on canvas 76 x 63 cms.

Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.