Miniature Portrait in English Filigree Frame with some notes on Thomas Worlidge of Covent Garden and Bath.

Post in preparation.

Notes and Photographs for Thomas Worlidge

English Miniature of a Gentleman.

in a Silver Gilt Filigree Frame.

by Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766).

Initialled T.W.

4 x 3.3 cms.

Sold Sworders Auctioneers of Stansted Mountfitchet, United Kingdom. December 14, 2021.

I have a parallel blog where I post on 17th and 18th Century Filigree

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/spectacular-and-large-silver-gilt.html

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Some Notes and Images for Thomas Worlidge.

For Worlidge and Rembrandt etc see -

https://close-encounters.rkdstudies.nl/11-a-claim-to-fame-thomas-worlidge-and-his-approach-to-rembrandts-printed-tronies-in-18th-century-england/

These engravings Published by Thomas Worlidge at the Piazza Covent Garden.

c. 1740

Lower centre in plate: Mahomet, a Turkish Merchant / Taken by the Corsairs, made a slave at Malta, Escap'd in a Dutch Vessel, / from thence came to England / Painted & Etch'd by Tho. Worlidge, in the Piazza Covent Garden

https://www.tregeaglefineart.com/en-GB/pictures/thomas-worlidge-1700-1766-portraits-of-mahomet-and-hamet-/prod_10543

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Man wearing a Turban.

Thomas Worlidge.

18.1 x 14.3 cm.

Sold with a group of six other head studies by or attributed to Worlidge, three on vellum.

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5954776

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Portrait of a Lady.

Thomas Worlidge.

1740 -50's.

Height 4.4 cms.

Bonhams, Lot 37, 24 November 2010.

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/17965/lot/37/thomas-worlidge-british-1700-1766-a-lady-wearing-dress-with-ribbon-bow-at-sleeve-frilled-lace-trim-a-jewel-at-her-corsage-pendent-earring/

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Portrait of a Girl.

Thomas Worlidge.

Plumbago on Vellum.

Height 4.3 cms

https://www.wigsonthegreen.co.uk/portrait/plumbago-portrait/

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Portrait of a Gentleman.

Thomas Worlidge.

No indication of  a signature on the website.

with Dealer Miles Barton.

Oil on canvas; 25 by 19 in; 63.5 x 48 cm; held in a gilt 18th century style frame

 Provenance: Frank C. Ball Collection, U.S.A.; Christies, 2nd March 1973, lot 70 bought by Mrs Newman; Private Collection, London.

https://www.milesbarton.com/product/portrait-of-a-gentleman-2/

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A Select Collection of Drawings from Curious Antique Gems; most of them in the possession of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom; etched after the Manner of Rembrandt.

By T. Worlidge, Painter.

 

1768, Published for M (Mary) Worlidge, and M (Mary) Wicksteed.

182 plates.

An interesting collaboration between Mary Worlidge and Mary Wicksteed.

the Widows of Thomas Worlidge d. 1756) and John Wicksteed (d. 1754).

Mary Wicksteed was the widow of John Wicksteed who had Wicksteeds Machine at Lyncome in Bath.

Mary Wicksteed married Thomas Worlidge in Bath Abbey, 12 June 1743.

Mary Wicksteed / Worlidge/Ashley, Pastellist (c.1720 - c1790).

Excellent High Resolution images available on line from the Hathi Trust digitalised by Getty.

Volume I. - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t4jm33z8v&seq=11

Volume II. - https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t6qz3328r&seq=11

Volume III. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t6d22s568&seq=11

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Orange Grove, Bath.

Some useful maps plans and engravings etc.

https://www.freshford.com/East%20Gate%20Bath.html

Ref John Wicksteeds Shop, Orange Grove.

Wicksteed's Machine, Lyncome, Bath.

Charing Cross

 

A View of Northumberland House

Charing Cross.

Anonymous

Suggested as a follower of Canaletto.

The Universal Director - Mortimers Directory.

 

The Universal Director -  Mortimer's Directory.

or the Nobleman and Gentleman's True Guide. 

to the Masters and Professors of the Liberal and Polite Arts and Sciences

Pub. 1763.

https://repository.tku.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/11150/4896/1/LAUD_211-19-01.pdf

A very useful publication giving names and rough addresses of Artists, Craftsmen and Men in the Medical Professions.

Published here as an adjunct to my researches into St Martin's Lane and its Environs in the long 18th Century.

I haven't posted the complete directory but have included the list of Artists Sculptors etc and some Medical practitioners.

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Above -

Babel of Long Acre.

Bannerman,  at Pons Coffee House, in Castle Street, Leicester Fields. (Scottish Painter).

Basire, Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields.

Bermingham, Gt Queen St.

Burford on the Pavement, St Martins Lane Carver and Gilder.

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Above

Carter Statuary, Hyde - Park Corner.

Sir Henry Cheere - Old Palace Yard, Westminster.

John Cheere. Hyde - Park Corner.

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 Above.

Richard Cooper, Engraver in Peter's Court on the Pavement, St Martin's Lane.

Engraved Virgin and Child after Corregio - 1763 - 64. 

Son of the Scottish engraver see - https://www.kcmgalleries.com/auction-lot/correggio-virgin-and-child-etching-with-engraving_83A4E29A8E

Cooper worked le Bas studio in Paris; exhibited in London, Incorporated Society of Artists 1761, 1764, 1783 and Free Society in 1761, 1762; visited Italy, 1771-3(6?) [see Ingamells]

William Collins, Statuary, Channel Row Westminster.

Dall Scene Painter, Castle Stret, Opposite Cranbourne Alley.

Arther Devis, Great Queen Street.

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Above

Herbert Gomond, Seal Engraver etc. Chandois St, Covent Garden.

John Gwynn, Architect. Little Court, Castle Street.

Samuel Harvey, Statuary, upper end of  Masham St. Westminster.

Francis Hayman, St Martin's  Lane Opposite May's Buildings

Richard Hayward, Statuary. near Dover St, Piccadilly.

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Thomas Major on the Paved Stones, St Martin's Lane.

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Ref Pars and Shipley - https://committees.westminster.gov.uk/documents/s16746/Cabinet%20Member%20Report%20William%20Shipley.pdf

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Angibaud, St Martins Lane between the Two Slaughter's Coffeee Houses.

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Peers Clark, Surgeon, May's Buildings.

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Samuel Ryley, Surgeon, Lancaster Court.

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Bayley, Apothecary St Martin's Lane.

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Bowden, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

Butcher, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

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Richards, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

Bust of Sir James Rushout, The monument at Blockley, Part 7.

  continued from my previous post. 

The Historicising  Bust of Sir James Rushout (1625 -1698).

St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.

on the Mural Monument at the East End of the North Aisle.

To my eye the least successful of the five Rushout busts. This bust is very unusual in that it is marred by a grey vein which runs through the marble and is plainly visible on both sides of the face. It is inexplicable why such a poor block of marble should have been chosen.

Alice Pitt. The Bust on the Rushout Monument Blockley, Part 6.

 continued from my previous post.

Part 6.

Alice Pitt (1651 - 1698).

wife of Sir James Rushout.

St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.

on the Mural Monument at the East End of the North Aisle.

Alice Pitt, daughter of Edmund Pitt of Sudbury Court, Harrow in Middlesex.

 

By the 15th of May 1664 she had married Edward Palmer, son of Geoffrey Palmer and his wife, Margaret Moore. The marriage was childless and Edward died in 1667, being buried at East Carlton on the 14th of August. 

 

Around 1670 Alice married Sir James Rushout Bart., son of fishmonger, John Rushout, and his wife, Abigail Godschalk.They were parents of five sons and four daughters.

The question remains as to who sculpted this and the other four busts on the Rushout Monument -

Rysbrack or Moore?

I am leaning towards Moore who inscribed the monument.

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