Two Marble Busts of Milton (1608 - 1674),
at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
under construction
A fairly brief post on a subject that really requires in depth study - something I will come back to in due course.
Posted here as an aide memoire and catch up with the Art UK sculpture database website
The images could benefit from a bit of a tweak!
1. John Milton
after? Edward Pierce
John Milton
inscribed W. Faithorne b.1616.
Brush and brown wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper
320 × 192 mm
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/82852/bust-of-milton
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John Milton
After a bust attributed to Edward Pearce
Plaster cast of bust, based on a work of 1660
NPG 2102
© National Portrait Gallery, London
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw04438/John-Milton?
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John Milton
Ashmolean Plaster cast
Height 29.3 cms
Purchased 1926
Neither of the two plaster casts of the Pierce type bust appear to be anywhere near first generation.
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John Milton
Plaster After Edward Pierce
29 cms
Image courtesy.
National Portrait Gallery of Scotland
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Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
They say after Rysbrack!
Below is the link to my blog post on the terracotta bust of Milton by Rysbrack in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2015/11/terracotta-of-milton-by-rysbrack.html
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Milton
Plaster Roubiliac
British Museum