Saturday 29 August 2020

The Spencer Cowper Monument by Roubiliac, Hertingfordbury, Herts.



The Spencer Cowper Monument
Louis Francois Roubiliac.
St Mary's Church
Hertingfordbury, Herts.



 Spencer Cowper (1669-1728), of Hertingfordbury Park, Herts.; Lincoln’s Inn; and Bridge House, St. Olave’s, Southwark.


Spencer Cowper d.1727, Judge of the Pleas, the memorial is in a window embrasure on north wall of the church, a black marble cartouche with inscription, above a scrolled and pedimented surround in black marble, with a relief of Cowper in judge's robes, seated between the figures of Wisdom and Justice, carved 1752 by Roubiliac.


For an excellent short biography of Spencer Cowper see -

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/cowper-spencer-1669-1728


All photographs taken by the author.































































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Duncan Forbes
Louis Francois Roubiliac
put up in 1752
Parliament House Edinburgh

Included here because of the similarity of the pose

Photographs Courtesey Courtauld

see - https://www.clan-forbes.org/duncan-forbes



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Photograph courtesy Kim Traynor