Bath, Art and Architecture

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Francis Dashwood - Bust now assumed as by Thomas Scheemakers.

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  Updated 20 August 2025. This post is part of a research project into a series of 11 excellent although uninscribed busts including one ter...

Monument in Church Drayton Beauchamp - was the figure of Gertrude Cheyne modelled by Roubiliac?

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  Monument to William Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven (d. 1728). and his Wife Gertrude nee Pierrepont (c. 1663 d.1732). St Mary the Virgin Chu...
Monday, 23 June 2025

Two unidentified busts by Michael Rysbrack.

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 The Ashmolean Museum Marble Bust and  The Bust at West Wycombe Park. The Ashmolean Bust on loan from a Private Collection. ...................

Chiselden (Cheselden) a recently exhibited portrait.

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  William Cheselden by Jonathan Richardson the Elder. Drawing with London Dealers Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker. Summer Exhibition 2025. ht...
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