Bath, Art and Architecture

Thursday, 14 January 2016

Possible Plaster Statuette after Scheemakers sold by Fenwick Bull

Fenwick Bull. Figures and Models in Plaster. For Fenwick Bull and a plaster bust of Handel see -...

Shakespeare after Scheemakers Kilmainham Dublin

A Statue of William Shakespeare. After the Original by Scheemakers. On Riversdale House, Kilmainham, Dublin. Ireland...

Sunday, 10 January 2016

Sir George Cooke by Sir Henry Cheere

Sir George Cooke (1675 - 1740). Sir Henry Cheere (1703 - 81). Marble Statue 320 by 122 by 107cm. Ashmolean Museum Oxford. ...

Friday, 8 January 2016

The Rysbrack Statuettes of Rubens, van Dyck and du Quesnoy, Part 32, Scheemakers Monument to Shakespeare, its Genesis, Variants and influence. Craggs Monument

Scheemakers Monument to Shakespeare of 1740, Westminster Abbey; ...

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David Bridgwater: "The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred. Lucian of Samosata

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