Nicholas Hawksmoor, bust at the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford.

The Portrait Sculpture in The Codrington Library. 

at All Souls College, Oxford University.

Part 28.

Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661 - 1736).

Bronzed Plaster Bust.

Here attributed to Louis Francois Roubiliac.

(currently with no evidence).


With Grateful thanks to Gaye Morgan, Chief Librarian and Conservator at the Codrington, All Souls for making this entry possible.

It appears that there is another bust - perhaps by the same hand and inscribed Giles Bennett, / Manciple  1736 was in The Buttery at All Souls in 1925, but I have not yet had the opportunity to inspect it on my visits (see below).

Mrs Webb suggests that they were both made by Henry Cheere in about 1736.

see Poole vol II, 1925.

https://archive.org/stream/b22652061_0002#page/190/mode/2up



For refs to Manciple Gile Bennettt see -- https://archive.org/stream/catalogueofarchi00mart#page/n7/mode/2up

Bust of Giles Bennett in the Buttery at All Souls, Oxford.

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Photographs taken by the Author

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Monument to William Wither. d.1732.
Wootton St Lawrence Church, Hampshire
Bust with the same drapery as the Hawksmoor bust.


The church was rebuilt in 1863.
see Roubiliac and Cheere .... Malcolm Baker in the Journal of the Church Monuments Society Vol X 1995

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Nicholas Hawksmoor
Plaster Private Collection?
My suspicion is that this the bust at All Souls

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Nicholas Hawksmoor
Bronze
546 mm wide
Modern cast taken from the original plaster at All Souls, Oxford.

Cast by the Morris Singer Foundry.
Given to the NPG by the Warden and Fellows of All Souls in 1962.


Image Courtesy National Portrait Gallery.

If it were up to me I would replace the socle with a smaller and less clumsy and insensitive version as in the black and white photograph above.

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Shown here for comparison

 Thomas Missing
Marble Bust on the Monument.
Probably Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Holy Rood Church,  Crofton and Stubbington, Hampshire.

Formerly Crofton.

1738.

Thomas Missing built the south transept in 1725 to accommodate his family pews and mausoleum. He was MP for Southampton and the merchant responsible for victualling Gibraltar. He was presumably responsible for the shaped gable and segmental windows to the south transept shown in a mid C19 illustration in the National Monuments Record.

Noted in the London Magazine of November 1738.