List of the busts in the Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge

List of the busts in the Wren Library, 

Trinity College, 

Cambridge.

Taken From British History online

see - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp209-244

Busts on the bookcases etc.

(1) Joseph Nollekens, R.A., aged 84, signed 'L. A. Goblet fecit 1821',

(2) Homer,

(3) Democritus,

(4) Demosthenes,

(5) Socrates,

(6) Julius Caesar,

(7) Marcus Aurelius,

(8) Horace,

(9) Cicero,

(10) Marcus Brutus,

(11) Seneca,

(12) Virgil,

(13) Anacreon, (poss Grinling Gibbons).

(14) Plato,

 (15) Shakespeare,

(16) Hooper; W. side,

(17) Newton,

(18) Shakespeare,

(19) Spenser,

(20) B. Jonson (Plate 267), (poss Grinling Gibbons).

(21) Beaumont,

(22) Fletcher,

(23) Inigo Jones,

(24) Sydenham,

(25) Milton,

(26) Dryden,

(27) Locke,

(28) Tillotson,

(29) Addison,

(30) Pope,

(31) Porson,

(32) Coleridge.

(13) and (20) may well be two of those for which Gibbons was paid; they are of wood painted white (see below).

The Pair of Carved Wood busts.

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Busts before the bookcases.

(1) Francis Willoughby (Plate 261), 'L. F. Roubiliac. Sct. 1751',

(2) Sir William Bolland (1772–1840), 'Sievier Sc.',

(3) Adam Sedgwick, '1860, T. Woolner, Sc. London.',

(4) Anthony Shepherd, 'J. Bacon R.A. Sculpt. 1790', given 1796,

(5) John Mitchell Kemble, 'T. Woolner. Sc. London., 1865',

(6) Roger Cotes, 'P. Scheemakers Fecit: 1758', given the same year,

(7) Arthur Caley, 1821–95, 'Henry Wiles Sc. Cambridge',

(8) Lord Houghton, 1809–85, by W. W. Story,

(9) Sir Robert Cotton, Bt. (Plate 261), 'L. F. Roubiliac 1757', given the same year,

(10) William George Clark, 'T. Woolner Sc. London. 1879',

(11) Julius Charles Hare, 'T. Woolner, Sc. London, 1861',

(12) Connop Thirlwall, 1797–1875, 'E. Davis Sc. London',

(13) Richard Bentley (Plate 261), 'L. F. Roubiliac Sct. 1756', given the same year,

(14) Joseph John Thomson, 'Derwent Wood R.A. 1923',

(15) (blank),

(16) Francis Bacon, 'L. F. Roubiliac Sculpit 1751';

West side,

(17) John Ray (Plate 261), 'L. F. Roubiliac Sct. 1751',

(18) Alfred Tennyson, 1857, 'T. Woolner, Sc. London.',

(19) Arthur Henry Hallam, 1811–33, 'F. Chantrey Fecit',

(20) James Jurin, 'P. Scheemakers Ft. 1766',

21) Coutts Trotter, 'T. Woolner Sc. London 1888',

(22) Robert Smith, 'P. Scheemakers Fecit: 1758', given 1758,

(23) Robert Leslie Ellis, 'T. Woolner. Sc. London. 1867',

(24) John Ferguson McLennan, 'J. Hutchinson R.S.A. Edinburgh 1892',

(25) Sir Edward Coke, 'L. F. Roubiliac 1757', given the same year,

(26) Johnstone Munro, 'T. Woolner Sc. London 1886',

(27) William Whewell, 'E. H. Baily, R.A. Sculp. 1851',

(28) William Clark, by Timothy Butler, London, given 1882,

(29) Isaac Barrow, signed twice 'L. F. Roubiliac Sct. 1756', given the same year,

(30) Lord Lyndhurst, 'W. Behnes Sculpt. 1844', given 1876,

(31) (blank),

(32) Isaac Newton (Plate 262), 'L. F. Roubiliac Sculpit. 1751'.

Ray (17) and his pupil Willoughby (1), F. Bacon (16) and Newton (32) flanking the N. and S. doorways respectively were the first to be set up; they have original marble pedestals; most of the rest are on oak pedestals copied from the last. (See also Staircase-pavilion above).

A terracotta bust of Newton (Plate 262), signed 'M. Rysbrack 1739', has recently been placed near (32); it was at Teddesley Hall, Warwickshire, from 1756 to 1932.

Isaac Newton. Terra-cotta bust, by Rysbrack. 1739.

Isaac Newton. Marble bust, by Roubiliac. 1751.

Charles, 6th Duke of Somerset, 

by Grinling Gibbons 

1689 - 91

Bust of Francis Bacon in the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Marble Bust of Francis Bacon
First Baron St Albans 

in the Wren Library, 

Trinity College, Cambridge.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Francis Bacon

Bronze Medallion by Jean Dassier

Diam 41 mm

British Museum

Francis Bacon

Silver Medallion

Thomas Bushell

41 mm.

British Museum

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Francis Bacon

Engraving

Frontispiece to Bacon's 'Of the Advancement of Learning' (1640) and 'The Historie of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh' (1641). 
Engraving

William Marshall.

1640

245 x 146 mm

British Museum

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Francis Bacon

engraving

Crispijn van der Passe

c. 1617 - 30.

154 x 97 mm

British Museum

Francis Bacon

Engraving

Simon van de Passe

182 x 115 mm.

after 1626.

British Museum

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Francis Bacon

engraving

after Simon de Passe by Thomas Cross.

118 x 70 mm.

1653

British Museum

Francis Bacon

Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar

after Simon de Passe

 Frontispiece to Francis Bacon's 'The History of the Reign of Henry VII [...]' (London: 1676).

162 x 111 mm.

1676

British Museum

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Francis Bacon

engraving 

by Frederik Hendrik van Hove

from 'Baconiana. Or certain genuine remains of Sr Francis Bacon' 

(London, J.D. for Richard Chiswell, 1679).

156 x 93 mm

1679

British Museum

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Francis Bacon

Late 17th Century

engraving by Tyroff

157 x 98 mm

National Portrait Gallery.

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Francis Bacon

Engraving

 Michael Vandergucht

175 x 102 mm.

1690 - 1725

British Museum

Francis Bacon

Frontispiece to Francisci Baconi - Opera Omnia - R Gosling

After Paul van Somer 

engraved by George Vertue.

265 x 200 mm.

1728,

British Museum

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Francis Bacon

Mezzotint

Cornelius Johnson (Janssen) 

pub. J Cooper, d. 1737

351 x 252 mm

c. 1730.

British Museum.

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Francis Bacon

Engraving after Paul van Somer

George Vertue

205  x 132 mm.

1734

British Museum

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Francis Bacon

Engraving by Jacob Houbraken

after a portrait by John Vanderbank
in the possession of Marin Foulkes qv

364 x 231 mm.

From Birch's Heads
pub. John and Paul Knapton

1738

British Museum.

Frontispiece to the History of the Royal Society of London.

Bust of Charles II

with William Brounker seated on the left and Francis Bacon seated on the right.

Engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar

After John Evelyn

203 x 162 mm

1667 

British Museum.

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Francis Bacon
by John Vanderbank
oil on canvas
765 x 632 mm.
c.1732
National Portrait Gallery



Francis Bacon
by John Vanderbank
oil on canvas
1276 x 1026 mm.
c.1732
National Portrait Gallery



Francis Bacon
by anon
oil on canvas
2007 x 1270 mm.
after 1732
National Portrait Gallery.



Francis Bacon
Lazienki Palace
Warsaw Poland.
  purchased between 1783 and 1793 by Stanisław Augustus

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Francis Bacon
61 x 47 cms
Dulwich Picture Gallery

According to family tradition recorded on a label on the back given by the sitter to the Andrew family of Wandsworth and thence by descent to the donor.
They say after the original at Gorhambury

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Francis Bacon
Workshop of Louis Francois Roubiliac
In the Long Room Trinity College Library
Dublin
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Francis Bacon
Portland Stone
Temple of Worthies Stow, Buckinghamshire.

Who by the Strength and Light of a superior Genius,
rejecting vain Speculation, and fallacious Theory,
taught to pursue Truth, and improve Philosophy
by a certain Method of Experiment.


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Francis Bacon
Plaster bust
 John Cheere

Height 22"

Formerly Kirkleatham Hall supplied to Cholmly Turner in 1749

York Museum Trust.

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The Francis Bacon Society

see - http://www.francisbaconsociety.co.uk/

http://www.francisbaconsociety.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Baconiana-Index.pdf

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Bust of Isaac Newton, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Marble Bust of Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727),

Wren Library, Trinity College,

Cambridge.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Signed L.F. Roubiliac Sculpit. 1751.

I have published at great length on the busts and portraits of Newton in my parallel blog

see - http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/

Use the search box top left hand corner of the page

For the Roubiliac Royal Society marble bust and the Greenwich terracotta see -

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/bust-of-isaac-newton-by-roubiliac-at.html

The two coloured images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

Oil on Canvas

76.2 x 63.5 cms

1702

Bequeathed by Dr William Hunter in 1783

Hunterian Museum Glasgow.

Sir Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

126 x 100 approx.

Grantham Museum

Acquired 1987.

Bust of Richard Bentley in the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Marble Bust of Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742). 
Fellow of the Royal Society.

Master of Trinity College (1700 - 42)

in the Wren Library,

Trinity College, Cambridge.

by Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Signed L.F. Roubilic SCt.

All images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

I am very grateful to Sandy Paul, Sub Librarian at Trinity College Library for arranging for me to receive these photographs.

see -

http://www.facebook.com/trin.coll.cam.lib

This photograph of this bust  from Trinity College, Library, Sculptured Busts', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), 

 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/plate-261

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The British Museum Low Fired Clay Bust of Richard Bentley.

 Height 65 cms.

Richard Bentley

Plaster cast

Lambeth Palace

Scan from Esdaile 

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Richard Bentley

Sir James Thornhill

Oil on canvas.

125 x 102 cms.

1710

Trinity College, Cambridge

Bequeathed by the sitter.

This would appear to be the original of all the other portraits of Bentley.

Richard Bentley

Engraving

after James Thornhill.

George Vertue

214 x 161 - Paper size.

dated 1710

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Richard Bentley

Copy of the portrait by Thornhill.

St John's College, Cambridge.

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Richard Bentley

After Thornhill

1270 x 1022 mm.

dated 1710

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Richard Bentley

Thomas Hudson

Oil on Canvas

239 x 148 cms

Trinity College, Cambridge

Gifted from ED Garforth, 1749

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For a life of Bentley see -

Richard Bentley by Kristine Louise Haugen, pub Harvard University Press, 2011.

For a very useful overview of the life of Bentley see -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bentley