Friday 22 February 2019

Bust of Sir Peter Warren Roubiliac


Bust  Sir Peter Warren (1703 - 1752)

 Louis Francois Roubiliac

Marble Bust.
Undated c. 1753.
Huntington Library, San Marino, California.


http://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/3122/sir-peter-warren-naval-officer?ctx=501ef96c-0c19-4357-adeb-a20bb14c85d4&idx=3





Sir Peter Warren
Marble
not inscribed.
Height 83.8cms.

Photograph courtesy the Huntington Library.

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The two images above from -

 http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMQN1A_Sir_Peter_Warren__San_Marino_CA

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Lettered with title and 'Engrav'd for Hervey's Naval History. Vol. V. Book 8. Ch 6.'

176 x 112 mm
1779
British Museum

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Monument to Sir Peter Warren
c.1752/3.
Monument Westminster Abbey.
North Transept


'Sacred to the Memory / of Sir PETER WARREN / Knight of the Bath / Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron / of the British Fleet / and Member of Parliament / for the City and Liberty of Westminster. 

/ He derived his Descent from an antient Family in IRELAND, / his Fame and Honours from his Virtues and Abilities. / How eminently these were displayed, / with what Vigilance and Spirit they were exerted / in the various services wherein he had the Honour to Command, / and the Happiness to Conquer, / will be more properly recorded in the Annals of / GREAT BRITAIN. / On this tablet Affection with truth must say / that deservedly esteemed in Private Life / and universally, renowned for his publick conduct, / The judicious and gallant officer / possessed all the amiable qualities of the Friend, / the Gentleman and the Christian. / But the ALMIGHTY / whom alone he feared; / whose Gracious Protection he had often experienced, / was pleased to remove him from a Life of Honour, / to an eternity of Happiness / on the 29th day of July 1752 in the 49th year of his Age. / 

SUSANNAH his Afflicted Wife caused / this Monument to be erected'

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Sir Peter Warren 
Thomas Hudson (1701 - 79).
Oil on Canvas
127 x 101 cms
National Maritime Museum

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Sir Peter Warren
Thomas Hudson.
Oil on Canvas
1359 x 1321 mm.
NPG Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire.

This portrait is one of three of Warren which, according to a payment made by his widow after his sudden death in July 1752, Hudson painted in 1751 or 1752 at a total cost of £114.19s; this sum probably included the frames. This frame to this portrait is of a style favoured by the artist in the 1750s and is a somewhat gauche English translation of a contemporary French frame type.
Text above from NPG

National Portrait Gallery.

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Sir Peter Warren.
John Faber Jr.
after Hudson
Mezzotint
285 x 207 mm
NPG
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The Huntington has several other interesting 18th century busts in its collection including -.
John Milton, Terracotta by Rysbrack
John Hampden, Oliver Cromwell Marble by Rysbrack
Handel Plaster bust by Roubiliac.
Philip Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Marble Bust by Scheemakers.
David La Touch, Marble Bust by John Nost the younger.


The online photographs and information leave something to be desired.

I have tried several times over the last few years to obtain better photographs of these busts but so far with limited success.

Monday 18 February 2019

Chronological List of the Roubiliac Portrait Busts First Draught






The Portrait Busts of Louis Francois Roubiliac.
Chronological List

First Draught.


This list was initially derived from A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. Edited and Enlarged.

The numbers on the left refer to the entries in the Website of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Unfortunately the online version is not entirely reliable - hopefully this online list will put things right.


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57. – 1733 - Marshal Turenne. Untraced.

58. – 1733 - Prince de Condé.  Untraced.

These busts are mentioned in the periodical Le Pour et le Contre, XIV of November 1733, p.329. published in England by Abbe Prevost.

"M. Le Duc d’Argyle fait faire deux buste en marbre , l’un du Grande Conde, l’autre du Mal de Turenne. Il nempoi point M. Rysbrack, mais les connoisseursm’estiment pas moinsla main de M. Roubiliac, jeune Francais Eleve et digne imiateur du celebre Coustou".

see Figured in Marble, Malcom Baker. V & A Studies. pub 2000. p.153.


The drawing in the Harris Art Gallery Preston by Joseph Nollekins, probably drawn in the Roubiliac  in St Martins Lane studio at the time of his posthumous sale and published in Figured in Marble as Turenne, is not of of Turenne but of Oliver Cromwell (the terracotta in the British Museum).


1735. Two Busts of the Castrato Opera Singers

Senesino - Bust of Francesco Bernardi called Senesino (1686 - 1756) Terracotta Bust.
Metropolitan Museum New York


Farinelli - Carlo Broschi called Farinelli (1705 - 82). Lead Bust. Private Collection
see 

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/06/senesino-roubiliac.html

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Busts at All Souls College, Oxford






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59. 1737.  Sir Isaac Newton, Marble Bust.  Royal Society, London.

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1730’s. George Frederick Handel. Three quarter life size Plaster bust perhaps after a lost original by Roubiliac.


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George Frederick Handel. Terracotta Bust. Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire.



1738. George Frederick Handel. The Vauxhall Gardens Marble Statue.  Victoria and Albert Museum.



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1737/8. The William Seward bust of Alexander Pope. Marble Bust. Not signed or dated. Private Collection.



60. 1738.  Alexander Pope. Marble Bust, signed and dated 1738. Temple Newsam House, Leeds Art Galleries, 6/42

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62.   c. 1738. Jonathan Tyers. Terracotta Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum A.94-1927



62/2 (83). The Marble bust of Tyers is currently in store at Birmingham Museums.
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63.  1739.  George Frederick Handel, Marble Bust, Windsor Castle, RCIN 35255


For the terracotta relief portrait of Handel at the Victoria and Albert Museum see

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1739. Henry Streatfield, Terracotta Bust, dated 1739 on the socle.


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64. George Frederick Handel, c1739. Terracotta Bust, Thomas Coram Foundation, Foundling Hospital Holborn, London.



George Frederick Handel - Plaster Bust as the above bust.


George Frederick Handel.  Plaster Bust – Gloucester Cathedral

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65. - Alexander Pope, Marble Bust. Signed and dated 1740. Milton Hall, Cambs.


Alexander Pope. Milton Type Plaster Bust. Hughenden Manor, Bucks.


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66. - James Thomson, 1740. (Probably Rysbrack). Museum of London.

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67.   Lord Bolingbroke. pre-1740. Untraced.    

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c. 1740. Elizabeth Finch. Marble Bust. Kenwood House, English Heritage.


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68. 1741. Alexander Pope, The David Garrick Marble Bust. Signed and dated 1741. Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.

Alexander Pope, Plaster Bust, Shipley type Plaster Bust.


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61.c. 1740/1. Alexander Pope - terracotta bust. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.


69.  Alexander Pope, Marble Bust. Signed and Dated 1741.  Yale Centre British Art, New Haven Conn. B 1993.27


For a slightly smaller Plaster version in the British Museum see –

see also, for the plaster busts of Pope.



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113.  c. 1741. John Milton. Terracotta bust. Not dated.  National Galleries of Scotland.


John Milton. Plaster Bust. Not dated. British Museum.

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70.  Isaac Ware, Marble Bust. c1741.  First Version.  Detroit Institute of Arts, USA.


Isaac Ware, Marble Bust. Version 2 in the National Portrait Gallery.

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71. c. 1741. William Hogarth. Terracotta Bust. National Portrait Gallery, London.


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72.  1745. Philip, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Marble Bust. National Portrait Gallery. - 5829, 1985

For the Bronze Bust in the Victoria and Albert Museum see –


For the bronze bust of Lord Chesterfield in the Louvre see -


1746. The Dublin Castle Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield see


For the Plaster bust of Lord Chesterfield in the British Museum see:


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73. c. 1745. William Cheselden.  Plaster Bust. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

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122. Princess Amelia. Marble Bust. no date probably mid 1740’s. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.



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74. 1746. Lady Grisel Baillie. Mellerstain, Berwickshire, Scotland.

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75. 1747. Countess of Pembroke. Wilton, Wilts.

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76. 1747. Lady Murray of Stanhope. Mellerstain House, Berwickshire. Scotland

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77. 1747. Sir Andrew Fountaine.  Narford Hall, Norfolk.
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78. 1748. Arabella Aufrère. Marble Bust. Brocklesby Park, Lincs.

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79. 1749. Dean Jonathan Swift. Marble Bust. Long Room, Trinity College, Dublin.


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80. 1749. Dr Martin Folkes.  Bust Wilton House, Wilts.

Dr Martin Folkes. Plaster Bust at the British Museum.


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81.  1750. Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke.  Wilton House, Wilts.

For the Terracotta Bust at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (no photographs) see -


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84.  c1750. Unidentified man, probably Francis Hayman.  Plaster Bust .Yale Centre for British Art B 1977.14.25


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85.  1751. Archbishop Chichele. Marble Bust. All Souls College, Oxford.


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1751 – Francis Willoughby Terracotta Bust, British Museum.


86.  1751. Francis Willoughby, Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.


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John Ray. Terracotta Bust, British Museum


87. 1751. John Ray. Marble Bust.  Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.
(Extra detail of fur on the collar)


John Ray. With fur collar. Plaster Bust. Braintree Museum, Essex.

John Ray. With fur collar. Plaster Bust Victoria and Albert Museum. ex Boehm Collection.

John Ray. With Fur Collar. Plaster Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Ray. Plaster Bust. Peter Hone Collection.
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88. 1751. Sir Francis Bacon. Marble Bust. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.


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89. 1751.  Sir Isaac Newton. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

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1754. Daniel Lock. Marble bust on Monument, Trinity College, Chapel, Cambridge.


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1755, Sir Isaac Newton. Marble Statue. Trinity College, Cambridge.
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90. 1755. Sir Mark Pleydell. Marble Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum (National Trust loan 1)

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1755. Dr Matthew Lee. Marble Bust. Christchurch College, Oxford.
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91. 1756.  Dr Richard Bentley. Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Dr Richard Bentley. Plaster Bust. British Museum.

Dr Richard Bentley. Plaster Bust now missing. Recently at Lambeth Palace.


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92. 1756.  Dr Richard Mead. Marble Bust. Royal College of Physicians, London.


For the British Museum Plaster Bust of Richard Mead see -

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c.1756. Isaac Barrow. Unfired Clay Bust.

93.  1756. Isaac Barrow.  Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.


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94. 1757. Charles, Lord Whitworth. Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.


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95. 1757?  Colley Cibber. Painted Plaster Bust. National Portrait Gallery, London.

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1757. Dr Richard Frewin, Marble Bust. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

96. 1757. Dr Richard Frewen. Marble Bust. Library, Christ Church College, Oxford.


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97. 1757.  Sir Edward Coke. Marble Bust, Library Trinity College, Cambridge.

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1756/7. Sir Robert Cotton. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.


98. 1757. Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631). Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.



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99. 1757.   Thomas, Baron Trevor. Marble Bust. Trinity College, Cambridge.


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100.   1758.  David Garrick. Gilt Bronze relief. Garrick Club, London.


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101. c.1758. William Shakespeare. Terracotta bust. Garrick Club, London, inv 139.


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Charles I. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.


102.  1759.  King Charles I.  Marble Bust. Wallace Collection, London.

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 1759 Edward Capell,  Enravings of a bust or relief in plaster British Museum





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103.  1760.  Joseph Wilton. Plaster Bust. Royal Academy London.


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104.   1759/60. Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Countess of Leicester (set on a monument signed by Charles Atkinson), Tittleshall Church, Norfolk.
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105 . c1761. John Wilkes. Marble Bust. Guildhall Museum , London, acc 1098

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107.  Admiral Peter Warren. Marble bust. no date. Huntington Art Coll, San Marino, California.


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110.  Dr John Belchier, Plaster Bust. undated. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

William Cheselden. Plaster Bust. Royal College of Surgeons, London.


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112. George Frederick Handel Marble Bust, (bare-headed). Private coll.

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106. c.1761. John, 1st Earl Ligonier. Terracotta bust. National Portrait Gallery (1924)


114.  John, Lord Ligonier. Marble Bust. not dated. Royal Collection, RCIN 35256 (1817).



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118.  King George II. Marble bust.  no date.  Windsor Castle, Royal Collection.




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115. 1762. King Charles I. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

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Oliver Cromwell. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.


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William Shakespeare. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

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117.  King Edward VI. King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, Warks. ????

Another bust for which there doesn’t appear to be any evidence.

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119.  Marcus Aurelius from a cast brought from Rome. Bust      nd           BM, London

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120.   Molière. Bust. no date. Untraced.  probably a misattribution.

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123.   Roubiliac Self-portrait. Marble bust.  no date. National Portrait Gallery, London.

This is the bust supposedly of Roubiliac is currently attributed by the NPG to Joseph Wilton.

There is no evidence for this attribution.


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124.  Socrates, Plato, Demosthenes, Tully. 4 busts from the antique, material unspecified.  no dates. British Museum, London. Untraced.
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125. Time. Bust  no date.           untraced.

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Nicholas Hawksmore. Plaster Bust. Coddrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford.