The Roubiliac Sale Catalogue - with a list of Missing Roubiliac Busts.

 

The Roubiliac Missing Busts - The Posthumous Sale Catalogue.

12 May 1762.

The Sale held by Abraham Langford of the Piazza Covent Garden.

At the premises of Louis Francois Roubiliac at the top  end of St Martin's Lane.

 Westminster on the East side.

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The Missing Portrait Busts.

 

Day 1.

Lot 13. Mr Wildey. Plaster Bust.

Lot 16.  A Gentleman. Plaster Bust.

Lot 44. Mrs Nightingale. Mould in plaster.

 

Described and listed as Heads

Lot 77. Lord Shannon. Terracotta Head. Possibly related to the monument at Walton on Thames.

Lot 78. Lady Shannon. Terracotta Head. Ditto see my post - 

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2020/08/richard-boyle-viscount-shannon-monument.html

 Lot 79. Mrs Lyon. Terracotta Head.

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Day 2.

Lot 7. Dr Bradbury. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 12. Mr Carter Statuary. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 15, Captain McKenzies son. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 17. Mr Floyd. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 18. Mr Floyd. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 20. Mr Capel Plaster Bust or perhaps a relief. (Edward Capell {1713-81} known from engravings by Bartalozzi and at the BM).

 

Lot 76. A Gentleman. Terracotta Bust.

 Lot 81. A Gentleman Terracotta Bust.

 Lot 77. ---- Capel. Terracotta, Bust  (known from engravings by Bartalozzi and Anker Smith at the BM).

 Lot 85. Mr Nightingale and his Lady, Terracotta Busts.

A Peter Nightingale (d, 1763) was a lead merchant! of Lea and Ashover Derbyshire. 

Could these be the models for the pair of lead busts traditionally believed to be Mr and Mrs Salmon in the V and A?

Given that there were 6 of these busts in the sale it is odd that none have come to light 

 

 Day 3.

 Lot 19, Councillor Floyd. Plaster Bust.

 Lot 4. Britannia - Plaster.

 Lot 6. Mr Floyde - Plaster.

 Lot 28. Two Plaster busts of Mr Nightingale and his Lady. (The Mould for Mrs Nightingale was Lot 44, Day 1). See my suggestion for Lot 85 on the previous day.

 Lot 29. Ditto.

The identity of these Nightingales remains to be discovered, perhaps those on Roubiliac's Nightingale monument in Westminster Abbey although the "Salmon busts do not resemble the Nightingales on the monument.

 

Lot 73. A Lady. Marble bust.

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The Nightingale Monument.

In St Michael's chapel, off the north transept of Westminster Abbey, is the commemorating Lady Elizabeth Nightingale and her husband. She was born in 1704, the eldest of three daughters of Washington Shirley, Earl Ferrers and Viscount Tamworth (d.1729) and his wife Mary. 

Her sisters were Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (d.1791 aged 83) and Mary, Viscountess Kilmorey (died 1784).

 

On 24th June 1725 Elizabeth married Joseph Gascoigne (1695-1752), son of the Reverend Joseph Gascoigne, Vicar of Enfield in Middlesex. He assumed the surname of Nightingale on becoming heir to his kinsman Sir Robert Nightingale. Of their three sons, Washington, Joseph and Robert, only Washington survived his father but then only by two years. Elizabeth died on 17th August 1731 following a premature birth caused by the shock of a violent flash of lightning. This child, also called Elizabeth, survived and later married Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne and died (also in childbirth) in 1755.

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Vie et ouvrages de L. F. Roubillac, sculpteur lyonnais 1685-1762 / Le Roy de Sainte-Croix

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