The Dublin Castle Bust of Lord Chesterfield Photographs - Second Series.

 

The Dublin Castle Bronze Bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope,

4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).

 

by Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Life Size.

Signed and Dated on the White Marble Socle 1746.

 

Photographs - Second Series.

Taken at Dublin Castle 5 October 2016.

 

It seems that monies were raised by public subscription to finance its purchase.

 

There is mention of two terracotta busts and three plaster busts of Chesterfield in the Roubiliac Sale Catalogue of 1 (British Museum) one of the latter bought by Dr Matthew Matey for the British Museum.

 

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From the New Monthly Magazine January 1829.

extract belkow from an essay 'Irish Lords Lieutenant' by Lady Morgan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographed by the author 5th October 2016.

At Dublin Castle.

Generally speaking the photographs I take are posted in the highest resolution I can get away with, right click and save for enlarging.

 

I am very grateful to William Derham of Collections and Research at Dublin Castle for facilitating my visit to the castle and to Joanne Bannon for guiding me to the objects.

 

The other reason for my visit was to photograph the small equestrian statue of George II the miniature version of the John van Nost III statue from St Stephens Green, which I will be posting shortly - see my previous post on -

 

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/equestrian-statue-of-george-ii-formerly.html

 

 

 I am currently using this separate blog to file my photographs and unfinished notes on the subject of 18th century English Portrait Sculpture. It acts as a sort of aide memoire as well as filing system but as I have added pages it seems to have gathered its own momentum and taken on a life of its own.

 

 

For a useful summary of the life and busts of Lord Chesterfield see -

 

http://www.sothebys.com/de/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.132.html/2010/an-exceptional-eye-a-private-british-collection-l10041

I thoroughly recommend William Derham's mammoth 400 page tome - Lost Ireland 1860 - 1960 pub. Hyde Park Editions

 

 

 

Whilst in Dublin for a flying visit, arriving the evening of the 3rd - and departing the evening of the 6th October I was able to cram in visits to The Royal Dublin Society ( a taxi driver informed me that it is universally referred to as the RDS), The National Gallery (currently mostly closed), Trinity College Library, Dublin Castle, Christchurch and the Irish Architectural Archive in Merrion Square and to take photographs in all these places.

 

I was also very fortunate to meet the conservationist Michael Casey of Henrietta Street (my favourite Dublin Street) who showed me around his remarkable and extraordinary house.

 

see - https://vimeo.com/63742898

 

 

 

This Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield acquired by the Louvre in 2010.

Sold by Sotheby's London 14 July 2010.

63 cms.

 

for a useful overview of the Roubiliac Chesterfield busts see British Museum website

 

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?searchText=Chesterfield&ILINK%7C34484,%7CassetId=480356001&objectId=31423&partId=1

 

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  A possibly useful avenue of further research might be

the Diplomatic Papers of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1720-1748.

in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

see - http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf0f59n4vh/?query=Philip%2520Stanhope

 

A portrait of Lord Chesterfield that has recently discovered to have been painted by Stephen Slaughter in 1746 is also in Dublin Castle. I will post a photograph in the near future.