Bath, Art and Architecture

Friday, 1 August 2025

An as yet unidentified very fine Marble Bust in the Lady Lever Art Gallery,

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  A Mid 18th Century Marble Bust. At the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. What might be described as a very fine late Baroque marble p...
Saturday, 26 July 2025

Edward Chapman Bird (1715 - 92), Marble Merchant. A Pair of very fine Marble Busts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by Giovanni Antonio Cybei (1706 - 1784). The Stone Merchants of Westminster in the 18th Century.

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  Some notes on the busts and the importing of marble from Carrara in the 18th Century. This post to act as an aide memoire - the subjects w...
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