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The Nollekens Sale - 3, 4 and 5th July 1823.
At his home and workshop 9 Mortimer Street and in Christie's Rooms in Pall Mall.
The sculptor Joseph Nollekens (1737-1823) and his 'Venus' in his studio.
Thomas Rowlandson (London 1756-1827).
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour.
11 ¾ x 9 in. (29.9 x 22.9 cm.)
Image courtesy -
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6153069
see also my blog post -
https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015_09_09_archive.html
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A catalogue of the whole and highly valuable collection of antique and modern sculpture, of the late Joseph Nollekins, Esq. ... : models, by the great cinque cento Italian artists ... : statue of venus, in marble ... and an original cast of a sitting venus ... : also a few pictures, prints by M. Antonio, &c. and drawings framed and glazed ... : which will be sold by auction / by Mr. Christie. (3 July 1823).
The Sculptor - Preparations for the Academy, Old Joseph
Nollekens and his Venus.
Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Rowlandson
1800.
Height: 45.1cm base length: 24.1cm base width: 14.3cm.
A Bust by Goblet exhibited RA 1816 (945); another exhibited RA 1822 (1041) is probably that in V&A Museum incised: JOSEPH NOLLEKINS Esqr R.A./Aged 84.
This bust was in the Christies sale, 5 July 1823, lot 112 of 'the whole of the highly valuable collection of Antique and Modern Sculpture of the late Joseph Nollekins [sic]'.
Dowager Marchioness of Landsowne deceased sale, held on 3 May 1834, Messrs Christie, Manson and Christie, lot 115. No purchaser is recorded, suggesting that is was withdrawn or probably sold privately.
Bequeathed by Rupert Gunnis, Hungershall Lodge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1965.
H 44 x W 24 x D 24 cm.
at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
This bust represents Nollekens two years prior to his death and is a version in plaster after a marble bust by Lewis Alexander Goblet (1764–1823), now in the collection of the V&A.
Goblet was
for many years the principal carver and assistant in Nollekens workshop. This bust was one of a
group in plaster which formerly lined the walls of the Fountain Garden at
Holland House in West London.
H 41.5 x W 26 x D 24 cm.
Inscribed on the back JOSH. NOLLEKENS, R.A./ CHANTREY./SCULPTOR./1818.
Height: 58.30 centimetres, Width: 30.40 centimetres.
A marble bust of Nollekens was ordered by George Watson
Taylor esq. in 1818, but as Chantrey's bill for £105 was still unpaid in 1820,
the sculptor arranged to keep it for himself, and this may be the present
example.
An undraped cut-away bust of Nollekens by Chantrey of 1817,
which is not dissimilar to the Museum bust, is in the collection of the Duke of
Bedford at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.
