Bath, Art and Architecture

Sunday, 4 June 2017

Senesino - Roubiliac

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Bust of Francesco Bernardi called Senesino (1686 - 1756). Terracotta. c 1735. Louis Francois Roubiliac. Metropolitan Museum, New...
Sunday, 28 May 2017

A statue of John Willet by Michael Rysbrack

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A Marble Statue of John Willett (1745 - 1815).  (John Willett Adye by Michael Rysbrack. Originally for Merley House, Dorset. ...

Sir Andrew Fountaine by Roubiliac

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Sir Andrew Fountaine    by Louis Francois Roubiliac Terracotta Norwich Castle Museum see my blog entry - http://bathartan...

Billy Waters by Robert Shout

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Updated 23 August 2023 with further images. Billy Waters, King of the Beggars (c.1788 - 1823). "Black Billy" by Robert Sh...
Friday, 26 May 2017

Two Mysterious Plaster Busts Probably Shout of Holborn - Probably not Alexander Pope. Sudbury and Hone Collection

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Two Mysterious Early 19th Century Plaster Busts Almost certainly by Shout of Holborn, London.  - certainly not Alexander Pope,...
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