Monday 22 March 2021

The Pier Angelo Sarti Plaster Busts at Wimpole Hall, Cambridge. Part 4 John Locke



 Post Under Construction.


The Four Pier Angelo Sarti Plaster Busts at Wimpole Hall, Cambridge of Pope, Dryden, Milton and Locke

National Trust.

c.1820 - 40.

(Part 4).

John Locke.

after the original by John Cheere -  in the Wren Library, at Trinity College, Cambridge.


One of a set of four busts Pope, Milton Dryden and Locke cast and inscribed by Sarti now at Wimpole Hall, Cambridge (National Trust

Height 74 cms.

I have already written at some length and published photographs on the 18th century portrait sculpture of Locke see 


http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/02/some-plaster-busts-of-john-locke-by-and.html


For the same model bust of Locke but in bronze and lead bust see -


http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-bronze-bust-of-john-locke.html


For a set of busts of  Locke, Milton, Pope and Shakespeare formerly at Shardloes, Bucks see -

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/02/plaster-busts-at-shardeloes-house.html


For busts of Locke and Bacon by Ed. Hodges Bailey see -

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/01/busts-of-john-locke-and-francis-bacon.html


For essays by John Kenworthy Brown on the Sarti busts at the Athenaeum Club

see - https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/athenaeum/britishworthies.html


For the Scheemakers busts of Locke at Trinity Library Dublin and another from the Richardson Collection see -


http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018_02_12_archive.html



For the portrait of Locke by Kneller see -

 http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-portraits-of-john-locke-by-and.html























Inscription - Sarti, Dean St, Soho.
















Images above courtesy Art UK



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The Bust of Locke in the Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge supplied by John Cheere