Chronological List of the Roubiliac Portrait Busts First Draught.

The Portrait Busts of Louis Francois Roubiliac.

A Preliminary Chronological List.

First Draught.

This list was (mostly) initially derived from A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. Edited and Enlarged 2009.

The numbers on the left refer to the entries in the Website of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Unfortunately the online version is not entirely reliable - hopefully this online list will go some way to putting things right.

http://liberty.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=2322&from_list=true&x=0

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1730's.

57. – 1733 - Marshal Turenne. Untraced.

58. – 1733 - Prince de Condé.  Untraced.

These busts are mentioned in the periodical Le Pour et le Contre, XIV of November 1733, p.329. published in England by Abbe Prevost.

"M. Le Duc d’Argyle fait faire deux buste en marbre , l’un du Grande Conde, l’autre du Mal de Turenne. Il nempoi point M. Rysbrack, mais les connoisseursm’estiment pas moinsla main de M. Roubiliac, jeune Francais Eleve et digne imiateur du celebre Coustou".

see Figured in Marble, Malcom Baker. V & A Studies. pub 2000. p.153.

The drawing in the Harris Art Gallery Preston by Joseph Nollekins, probably drawn in the Roubiliac  in St Martins Lane studio at the time of his posthumous sale and published in Figured in Marble as Turenne, is not of of Turenne but of Oliver Cromwell (the terracotta in the British Museum).

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-harris-museum-preston-drawings-of.html

1735. Two Busts of the Italian Castrato Opera Singers.

Senesino - Bust of Francesco Bernardi called Senesino (1686 - 1756) Terracotta Bust.

Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Farinelli - Carlo Broschi called Farinelli (1705 - 82). A Lead Bust suggested as Farinelli. Private Collection

For the busts of Senesino and Farinelli see 

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/06/senesino-roubiliac.html

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59. 1737.  Sir Isaac Newton, Marble Bust.  Royal Society, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-terracotta-bust-of-isaac-newton-by.html

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/05/bust-of-isaac-newton-by-roubiliac-at.html

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1730’s. George Frederick Handel. Three quarter life size Plaster bust perhaps after a lost original by Roubiliac.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/asummary-of-researches-into-bust-of.html

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George Frederick Handel. Terracotta Bust. Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-grimsthorpe-castle-lincolnshire.html

1738. George Frederick Handel. The Vauxhall Gardens Marble Statue.  Victoria and Albert Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-vauxhall-gardens-statue-of-george.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/vauxhall-at-victoria-and-albert-museum.html

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1737/8. The William Seward bust of Alexander Pope. Marble Bust. Not signed or dated. Private Collection.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-following-blog-entries-i-intend-to.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/02/william-seward-1747-99-and-bust-of.html

60. 1738.  Alexander Pope. Marble Bust, signed and dated 1738. Temple Newsam House, Leeds Art Galleries, 6/42

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/3-thetemple-newsam-bust-of-alexander.html

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62.  c. 1738. Jonathan Tyers. Terracotta Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum A.94-1927.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O77818/jonathan-tyers-bust-roubiliac-louis-francois/

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/07/jonathan-tyers-and-his-bust-by-roubiliac.html

62/2 (83). The Marble bust of Tyers is currently in store at Birmingham Museums.

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63.  1739.  George Frederick Handel, Marble Bust, Windsor Castle, RCIN 35255.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/35255/george-frederick-handel-1685-1759

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-1739-marble-bust-of-handel-1685-1759.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-royal-collection-handel-bust.html

For the terracotta relief portrait of Handel at the Victoria and Albert Museum see -

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-roubiliac-terracotta-relief-of.html

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1739. Henry Streatfield, Terracotta Bust, dated 1739 on the socle.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/07/jonathan-tyers-and-his-bust-by-roubiliac.html

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64. George Frederick Handel, c1739. Terracotta Bust, Thomas Coram Foundation, Foundling Hospital Holborn, London.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-1739-marble-bust-of-handel-1685-1759.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-1739-marble-bust-of-handel-1685-1759.html

George Frederick Handel - Plaster Bust as the above bust.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/35255/george-frederick-handel-1685-1759

George Frederick Handel.  Plaster Bust – Gloucester Cathedral

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/comparison-photographs-of-gloucester.html

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1740's

65. - Alexander Pope, Marble Bust. Signed and dated 1740. Milton Hall, Cambs.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/4-themilton-fitzwilliam-bust-of.html

Alexander Pope. Milton Type Plaster Bust. Hughenden Manor, Bucks.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-roubiliac-type-plaster-busts-of.html

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66. - James Thomson, 1740. (Probably Rysbrack). Museum of London.

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67.   Lord Bolingbroke. pre-1740. Untraced.    

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c. 1740. Elizabeth Finch. Marble Bust. Kenwood House, English Heritage.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/04/bust-of-elizabeth-finch-by-henrietta.html  

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68. 1741. Alexander Pope, The David Garrick Marble Bust. Signed and dated 1741. Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/5-david-garrick-bust-of-alexander-pope.html

Alexander Pope, Plaster Bust, Shipley type Plaster Bust.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-roubiliac-type-plaster-busts-of.html

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61.c. 1740/1. Alexander Pope - terracotta bust. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/6-thebarber-institute-terra-cotta-bust.html

69.  Alexander Pope, Marble Bust. Signed and Dated 1741.  Yale Centre British Art, New Haven Conn. B 1993.27

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666534

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/7.html

For a slightly smaller Plaster version in the British Museum see –

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=39189&partId=1&object=20961&page=1

see also, for the plaster busts of Pope.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-roubiliac-type-plaster-busts-of.html

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113.  c. 1741. John Milton. Terracotta bust. Not dated.  National Galleries of Scotland.

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3285/john-milton-1608-1674-poet-and-scholar

John Milton. Plaster Bust. Not dated. British Museum.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=39699&partId=1

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70.  Isaac Ware, Marble Bust. c1741.  First Version.  Detroit Institute of Arts, USA.

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/bust-isaac-ware-59948

Isaac Ware, Marble Bust. Version 2 in the National Portrait Gallery.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/04/bust-of-architect-isaac-ware-1704-66-by.html

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71. c. 1741. William Hogarth. Terracotta Bust. National Portrait Gallery, London.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw03177/William-Hogarth?search=ap&subj=433%3BTerracotta&rNo=5

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There appears to be a long gap between 1741 and 1745 before Roubiliac produced another bust.

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72.  1745. Philip, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Marble Bust. National Portrait Gallery. - 5829, 1985

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07197/Philip-Dormer-Stanhope-4th-Earl-of-Chesterfield

For the Bronze Bust in the Victoria and Albert Museum see –

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/07/bronze-bust-of-lord-chesterfield.html

For the bronze bust of Lord Chesterfield in the Louvre see -

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/07/bronze-bust-of-lord-chesterfield-in.html

1746. The Dublin Castle Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield see

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-dublin-castle-bronze-bust-of-philip.html

For the Plaster bust of Lord Chesterfield in the British Museum see:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=31423&partId=1&object=20961&page=1

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73. c. 1745. William Cheselden.  Plaster Bust. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/03/cheselden-and-belchier-royal-college-of.html

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122. Princess Amelia. Marble Bust. no date probably mid 1740’s. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-marble-bust-of-princess-amelia.html

http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?qu=adam%20and%20eve&oid=31017

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74. 1746. Lady Grisel Baillie. Mellerstain, Berwickshire, Scotland.

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75. 1747. Countess of Pembroke. Wilton, Wilts.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/portrait-sculpture-at-wilton-house-no-3.html

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76. 1747. Lady Murray of Stanhope. Mellerstain House, Berwickshire. Scotland

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77. 1747. Sir Andrew Fountaine.  Narford Hall, Norfolk.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/portrait-sculpture-at-wilton-house-no-4.html

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78. 1748. Arabella Aufrère. Marble Bust. Brocklesby Park, Lincs.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-bust-of-arabella-aufrere-by-louis.html

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79. 1749. Dean Jonathan Swift. Marble Bust. Long Room, Trinity College, Dublin.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/11/jonathan-swift-by-roubiliac-trinity.html

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80. 1749. Dr Martin Folkes.  Bust Wilton House, Wilts.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/post-under-construction.html

Dr Martin Folkes. Plaster Bust at the British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/10/jacques-antoine-dassier-16-medallions.html

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81.  1750. Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke.  Wilton House, Wilts.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/portrait-sculpture-at-wilton-house-part.html

For the Terracotta Bust at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (no photographs) see -

http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?

qu=AcquiredFrom:Fitzwilliam%20AND%20AcquiredFrom:Richard&oid=29726

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84.  c1750. Unidentified man, probably Francis Hayman. Plaster Bust .Yale Centre for British Art B 1977.14.25

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/

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85.  1751. Archbishop Chichele. Marble Bust. All Souls College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/05/bust-of-henry-chichele-archbishop-of.html

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1751 – Francis Willoughby, Terracotta Bust, British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-francis-willughby-in-wren.html

86.  1751. Francis Willoughby, Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-francis-willughby-in-wren.html

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John Ray. Terracotta Bust, British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/05/john-ray-engraving-william-hibbert-of.html

87. 1751. John Ray. Marble Bust.  Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

(Extra detail of fur on the collar).

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-john-ray-in-wren-library.html

John Ray. With fur collar. Plaster Bust. Braintree Museum, Essex.

John Ray. With fur collar. Plaster Bust Victoria and Albert Museum. ex Boehm Collection.

John Ray. With Fur Collar. Plaster Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Ray. Plaster Bust. Peter Hone Collection (since disposed of).

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88. 1751. Sir Francis Bacon. Marble Bust. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-francis-bacon-in-wren-library.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/terracotta-bust-of-francis-bacon-at.html

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89. 1751.  Sir Isaac Newton. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/01/marble-bust-of-isaac-newton-in-wren.html

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1754. Daniel Lock. Marble bust on Monument, Trinity College, Chapel, Cambridge.

http://trinitycollegechapel.com/about/memorials/sculptures/lock/

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1755, Sir Isaac Newton. Marble Statue. Trinity College, Cambridge.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/01/statue-of-newton-by-roubiliac-trinity.html

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90. 1755. Sir Mark Pleydell. Marble Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum (National Trust loan 1)

http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1439109

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1755. Dr Matthew Lee. Marble Bust. Christchurch College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/07/bust-of-dr-matthew-lee-by-roubiliac.html

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91. 1756.  Dr Richard Bentley. Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Dr Richard Bentley. Plaster Bust. British Museum.

Dr Richard Bentley. Plaster Bust now missing. Recently at Lambeth Palace.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-richard-bentley-in-wren-library.html

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92. 1756.  Dr Richard Mead. Marble Bust. Royal College of Physicians, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/09/bust-of-richard-meade-by-roubiliac.html

For the British Museum Plaster Bust of Richard Mead see -

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=39189&partId=1&object=20961&page=1

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c.1756. Isaac Barrow. Unfired Clay Bust.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=31672&partId=1&searchText=%22Isaac+Barrow%22&page=1

93.  1756. Isaac Barrow.  Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-isaac-barrow-in-wren-library.html

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94. 1757. Charles, Lord Whitworth. Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-lord-whitworth-wren-library.html

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95. 1757?  Colley Cibber. Painted Plaster Bust. National Portrait Gallery, London.

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1757. Dr Richard Frewin, Marble Bust. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

96. 1757. Dr Richard Frewen. Marble Bust. Library, Christ Church College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-busts-of-richard-frewin-by.html

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97. 1757.  Sir Edward Coke. Marble Bust, Wren Library Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-sir-edward-coke-wren-library.html

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1756/7. Sir Robert Cotton. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/05/

98. 1757. Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631). Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-sir-robert-cotton-in-wren.html

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99. 1757.   Thomas, Baron Trevor. Marble Bust. Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/thomas-trevor-16921753-2nd-baron-trevor-275928

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100.   1758.  David Garrick. Gilt Bronze relief. Garrick Club, London.

http://garrick.ssl.co.uk/object-s0015

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101. c.1758. William Shakespeare. Terracotta bust. Garrick Club, London, inv 139.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-british-museum-and-garrick-club_96.html

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Charles I. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/asummary-of-researches-into-bust-of.html

102.  1759.  King Charles I.  Marble Bust. Wallace Collection, London.

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 1759 Edward Capell,  Enravings of a bust or relief in plaster British Museum

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0822-2292

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/03/edward-cappell-by-louis-francois.html

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103.  1760.  Joseph Wilton. Plaster Bust. Royal Academy London.

see - https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/bust-of-joseph-wilton-r-a

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104.   1759/60. Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Countess of Leicester (set on a monument signed by Charles Atkinson), Tittleshall Church, Norfolk.

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105 . c1761. John Wilkes. Marble Bust. Guildhall Museum , London, acc 1098

https://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2019/02/bust-of-john-wilkes-by-roubiliac.html

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107.  Admiral Peter Warren. Marble bust. no date. Huntington Art Coll, San Marino, California.

http://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/3122/sir-peter-warren-naval-officer?ctx=501ef96c-0c19-4357-adeb-a20bb14c85d4&idx=3

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110.  Dr John Belchier, Plaster Bust. undated. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

William Cheselden. Plaster Bust. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/03/cheselden-and-belchier-royal-college-of.html

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112. George Frederick Handel Marble Bust, (bare-headed). Private coll.

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106. c.1761. John, 1st Earl Ligonier. Terracotta bust. National Portrait Gallery (1924)

see https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw03912/John-Ligonier-1st-Earl-Ligonier

114.  John, Lord Ligonier. Marble Bust. not dated. Royal Collection, RCIN 35256 (1817).

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/07/bust-of-ligonier-by-roubiliac.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/10/busts-of-george-ii-and-john-first-earl.html

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118.  King George II. Marble bust.  no date.  Windsor Castle, Royal Collection.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/35256/john-1st-earl-ligonier-1680-1770

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/10/busts-of-george-ii-and-john-first-earl.html

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115. 1762. King Charles I. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/03/charles-i-roubiliac.html

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Oliver Cromwell. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

https://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2019/02/oliver-cromwell-by-roubiliac-british.html

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William Shakespeare. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-british-museum-and-garrick-club_96.html

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117.  King Edward VI. King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, Warks. ????

Another bust for which there doesn’t appear to be any evidence for the involvement of Roubiliac

It appears to have been supplied with a chimneypiece by Scheemakers see Biog. Dictionary.

https://www.ribapix.com/designs-for-king-edward-vi-grammar-school-new-street-birmingham-elevation-of-a-pre-existing-fireplace-surmounted-by-the-bust-of-a-boy-wearing-a-plumed-hat_riba66387

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119.  Marcus Aurelius from a cast brought from Rome. Bust nd .  BM, London

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120.   Molière. Bust. no date. Untraced.  probably a misattribution.

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123.   Roubiliac Self-portrait. Marble bust.  no date. National Portrait Gallery, London.

This is the bust supposedly of Roubiliac is currently attributed by the NPG to Joseph Wilton.

There is no evidence for this attribution.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2019/01/bust-of-roubiliac-or-not.html

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124.  Socrates, Plato, Demosthenes, Tully. 4 busts from the antique, material unspecified.  no dates. British Museum, London. Untraced.

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125. Time. Bust  no date.           untraced.

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Nicholas Hawksmore. Plaster Bust. Coddrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-portrait-sculpture-in-codrington_14.html

Warren Hastings Bust by Thomas Banks formerly belonging to William Seward

Updated 13 June 2020

Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818).

A (presumed) Marble Bust by Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805).

the bust carved 1789 - 91?

Some notes: -

Formerly in the Possession of William Seward. FRS. FSA. (1747 - 99).

I have not yet been aqble to establish the connection between William Seward and Warren Hastings - 

Seward wrote a sympathetic potted biography of Hastings which was published in his Biographiana, vol II pub. 1799 along with an engraving of another bust of Hastings by Banks (ill. below).

For an excellent potted history of Banks see - 

http://liberty.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=119&from_list=true&x=0

For the busts of Warren Hastings by Thomas Banks see Annals of Thomas Banks excerpts available on line at

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zZM3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=bust+Warren+Hastings+%22Thomas+Banks%22&source=bl&ots=UPkHT_tgf2&sig=ACfU3U1H9z38Lk_Swhu9JMZ05r_2oUzfhQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja4LXwqYHqAhXIQkEAHc5_ACQQ6AEwBHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=bust%20Warren%20Hastings%20%22Thomas%20Banks%22&f=false

Bust of Thomas Banks -  possibly

Stipple Engraving by John Conde (1765 - 1794).

Circa 1792

210 x 133 mm.

Another copy of this engraving is in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery Print Roombut with a wrong attribution and date

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/31506/right-honourable-warren-hastings-1732-1818-governor-general-india

Conde engraved a self portrait bust by Thomas Banks (1791).

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Warren Hastings

Thomas Banks c. 1770's ?

described as at Commonwealth Relations Office.

This image from Conway Library, Courtauld Institute website

https://www.courtauldprints.com/image/174689/hastings-warren-bust-of-thomas-banks

I have not yet found the current location of this bust - it is not listed on the Goverment Art Collection website

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For much more on William Seward the owner of the bust of Hastings see -

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/02/william-seward-1747-99-and-bust-of.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-will-of-williamseward-this-shows.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-following-blog-entries-i-intend-to.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-william-seward-martha-vandewall.html

Engraving from Biographiana by William Seward, Vol II - 1799.

Curiously this must be the Lansdowne bust below or another version of it, showing the large button? on his left hand proper shoulder and not the version (above) once in the collection of William Seward.

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Warren Hastings

 Marble 

height: 66.00 cm, width: 47.00 cm

Government Art Collection

Provenance: 

Commissioned by William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, later Earl of Shelburne (1737-1805) for Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square; 

thence by descent; sold through Christie's, 'Lansdowne House' sale, on 6 March 1930 (Lot 35; with 'wood pedestal carved with dolphins and foliage, and painted white'), for £84.0.0; 

from which sale purchased by J. Rochelle Thomas (of The Georgian Galleries), King Street, London SW1; by whom presented to the Ministry of Works in 1954

    

Inscribed INGRATA PATRIA.

 Presented by J Rochelle Thomas (The Georgian Galleries), February 1954.

Currently located ?  at The British Deputy High Commission (Kolkata, India).



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Warren Hastings

by Thomas Gaugain, published by John Brydon, after Simon de Koster, after Thomas Banks
stipple engraving, published February 1798 (1790)
NPG D35562

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Very poor photograph from Granger.com

No information provided.

The shape of the remains? of the socle suggest to me that it is a plaster version of the earlier bronze by Thomas Banks (below) possibly by Shout of Holborn who frequently used the eared device over his socles.

https://www.granger.com/results.asp?image=0111407&screenwidth=412

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Warren Hastings (1732 - 1818).

Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805).

Bronze from an original terracotta of 1790.

699 mm. tall

1794

Purchased 1866.

NPG 209.

National Portrait Gallery - Currently located at Beningborough Hall.

Banks ‘entertained the highest veneration’ for Hastings, frequently expressing his admiration ‘of the fine expression of his features, and more particularly of the uncommonly grand form of his forehead, which, with that of Horne Tooke, he considered the finest he had seen in modern heads’. [1] Hastings had promised to sit to Banks in December 1789, and sittings are listed in his Diary between 1 and 5 February 1790, the 5th being ‘the last day’, when the model was presumably completed. Hastings paid Banks ‘for the bust & 5 casts £73.10.0’ on 14 April 1791. [2]

This first bust by Banks was produced in two forms, the marble with the shoulders complete, and the bronze with the shoulders cut, as NPG 209. The marble, dated 1790, belongs to the India Office (British Library); [3] a terracotta is in the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta, and another was with Mrs Shortt in 1938; a bronze cast (bearing the inscribed date 1790), was sold Christie’s, New York, 16 April 1994, lot 1, and a plaster also belongs to the India Office (British Library). [4]

NPG 209, differing from the preceding with its cut shoulders, is dated 1794 and appears to have been the subject of two letters from Banks to Hastings. On 27 December 1794 he wrote: ‘I have at last succeeded in Obtaining a Cast of yr Bust in bronze, tho not altogether to my mind I beleive it is as good as can be got done at any London foundry - the expences attending the making three or four Moulds & the casting & repairing together, make it necessary for me to charge you thirty five pounds ...’. On 9 January 1795 he wrote again saying he had begun the bronze ‘by advice of Mr Cockerell who thought I might get something by sending some to India & I imagin’d it might be your wish to have one also & therefore made trial but finding the doing them attended with a good deal of trouble & expence I have giv’n up the idea of sending any to India & if I have been under a Mistake with respect to that which I sent to yr house I am willing to withdraw it’. [5] A plaster cast was presented to Westminster School by a descendant of Cockerell. [6]

Banks produced a second marble bust for Lord Lansdowne in 1796, the right shoulder bare, the socle inscribed INGRATIA PATRIA (Foreign Office; GAC 2680/1). [7] Sittings were given in October and December 1796; a profile engraving by T. Gaugain (from a drawing by Simon de Koster) was published 10 October 1797 and another by the same artists showing a full-face view was published in 1798. [8] The ‘Bust of Mr Hastings’ exhibited at the RA in 1799 (1081) was presumably of this second type. On 12 January 1798 Banks told Hastings he had ‘but one cast from the last Bust I made of you’ and a new mould costing five guineas was required.

An ‘original’ terracotta of one of Banks’s busts was in William Tassie’s sale, Christie’s, 12 July 1805, lot 207. 

A plaster cast from an unspecified model by Banks belonged to Captain D. M. Anderson in 1935. 

In Banks’s sale, 22 May 1805, lot 5 was a ‘Mask of Mr Hastings’; lots 53 and 54 were busts of Hastings in terracotta; lot 55 another with ‘the Mould of Ditto’, and lot 56 ‘Ditto in different Drapery, and Mould of Ditto’. 

In 1792 Banks had also modelled two chimneypieces for Daylesford, incorporating Persian and Indian motifs. [9]

Footnotes -

1) C. F. Bell, Annals of Thomas Banks, 1938, pp 80-81 (quoting Mrs Forster to Allan Cunningham, 1 March 1830, from The Builder, XXI, 3 January 1863, p 5).

2) Ibid., p 79.

3) Ibid., pl.XXXI; dated 1790, illus. M. Archer, The India Office Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, 1986, no.124; engraved J. Condé 1792.

4) M. Archer, The India Office Collection of Paintings and Sculpture, 1986, no.125.

5) C. F. Bell, Annals of Thomas Banks, 1938, pp 102-03 (quoting British Library, Add MS 9173, ff.292, 306). The architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell had designed Daylesford for Hastings.

6) C. F. Bell, Annals of Thomas Banks, 1938, p 80; Sir Arthur Knapp, A Catalogue of the known Portraits of Warren Hastings, 1951, p 20, no.4.

7) C. F. Bell, Annals of Thomas Banks, 1938, pp 110-11, 115-16.

8) Ibid., pl.XXXI.

9) Ibid., pp 88-89, pls.XXII, XXIII

Provenance:

[Warren Hastings; his godson Warren Hastings Frith of Lesley, Hants.];1 John Marshall of Southampton, who had purchased it ‘a few years ago from a family related to [Hastings]’,2 from whom purchased 1866.

1. See C. F. Bell, Annals of Thomas Banks, 1938, pp 80, 103. An undated note in Scharf’s hand in the NPG archive records the death of Warren Hastings Frith, son of Col. Frith, at Lesley, Hants, ‘about 6 years ago’.

2. Letters from Marshall of 1, 8 November 1865, 6 March 1866 (NPG archive); the bust was acquired with ‘a granite polished column’.

This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

Info. above from

National Portrait Gallery.

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Warren Hastings

Engraving after Zoffany

11.76 x 8.25 cms

1786

Image courtesy Nation Galleries of Scotland.

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/search?search=Warren%20Hastings

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Warren Hastings

After Tilly Kettle

Engraving from the European Magazine

1782

17.6 x 11 cms.

Image courtesy National Galleries of Scotland.

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Warren Hastings

Mezzotint by John Jones (1745 - 97).

after John Thomas Seton ( 1735 - 1806).

48 x 34.7 cms.

Undated

Image courtesy National Galleries of Scotland.

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Warren Hastings

Engraving 

After William Bromley.

30.48 x 20.96 cms.

1797

Image Courtesy National Galleries of Scotland.

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Bust of Alexander Pope.

by Roubiliac.

in the Possession of William Seward

Drawn by John Brown

Engraved by Marino Bovi

with Titles

The bust here incorrectly attributed to Rysbrack 

1788.

This engraving was not the one exhibited in the exhibition at Waddesden Manor in 2014.

curated by Malcolm Baker, who curiously chose to use the proof engraving without title (below).

Thus avoiding any controversy regarding the sculptor of the bust.

Obviously not Rysbrack but Roubiliac.

Malcolm Baker was aware of the existance of this engraving in 2002

The William Seward Bust of Alexander Pope.

Sculpted by Roubiliac

Drawn by John Brown

Engraved by Marino Bovi

Proof engraving

before Title

1788.

This is the engraving used in the Waddesden exhibition

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William Seward (1747 - 1799).

by George Dance (1741 - 1825).

Pencil and grey wash, 

Dated 5 May 1793.

10 in. x 7 5/8 in. (254 mm x 194 mm)

Purchased, 1898.

National Portrait Gallery.


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Monument and Bust of Warren Hastings

Westminster Abbey

The bust by Samuel Manning I (1786 - 1842).

the Monument designed by John Bacon Jnr.

Poor quality image from Westminster Abbey Website

https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/warren-hastings

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Lead Bust of John Locke attributed to John van Nost redux.

A Lead Bust of John Locke 

attributed to John van Nost.

Yale Centre for British Art.

I have already posted at great length on the busts of Locke see:

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/02/bust-of-john-locke-by-john-van-nost-i.html

But I return to this bust after discovering a photograph of it in the house of John St Loe Strachey, the Editor and Proprietor of the Spectator, photographed in 1915.

Lead on stone base.

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666355

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The bust of Locke shown in situ in the First Floor room at 14 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster in 1915.

Home of John St Loe Strachey, Editor and Proprietor of the Spectator

Offices of Sir Clough Bertram Williams Ellis in 1919.
who had married Amabel Strachey in 1915


see The Museum by the Park, Max Bryant, pub Paul Holberton, 2017.

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The van Nosts were a family of sculptors of Flemish descent. 

The eldest, John van Nost, is first recorded working at Windsor Castle, circa 1678. 

Foreman to Arnold Quellin whose widow Francis he married. She was daughter of the Landscape painter Jan Siberechts. She died in 1716.

He had his own property and yard by circa 1687 in the Haymarket, which remained in family ownership until the death of his wife in 1716 and there manufactured 'Marble and Leaden figures, Busto's and noble Vases, Marble Chimney Pieces and Curious Marble Tables'.

In the 1690's he produced life size wooden horses for the Line of Kings in the Tower of London

In 1695 he made statues of William and Mary for the Royal Exchange.

After his death in 1710, the workshop near Hyde Park Corner was continued by his cousin, also John van Nost (b.1686), possibly with his nephew, Gerard.

A sale was held on April 17, 1712 a sale of John Nost’s effects was held ‘at his late Dwelling House in Hyde-Park-Road (near the Queen’s Mead-house)’.

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"A CATALOGUE OF Mr. Van NOST's COLLECTION OF Marble and Leaden Figures, Busto's and Noble Vases, Marble Chimney Pieces, and Curious Marble Tables, to be Sold by AUCTION, at his late Dwelling House in Hyde-Park-Road (near the Queen's Mead-house) on Thursday the 17th of this Instant, April, 1712, the Sale will begin exactly at Five in the Afternoon, and are to be seen Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the Sale. N.B. As this Collection is the most Valuable that ever was Exposed to Sale in this Kingdom, a great deal of Money in making, and are of Intrinsick Value, as well in the Performance as to the Marble and Metal, there is a small price set to every thing, to be advanced on by the Buyers. The Statues are to be fetch'd away in 4 days after the Sale. Conditions of Sale as usual, and Catalogues had Gratis at the place above named."

After the sale, there was an advert in the Daily Courant, 23 April 1712 (cit. artworld.york.ac.uk) stating that the items that didn't sell were available for sale from his widow: "Whereas Mr. Van Nost's Collection of Figures and Vauses was last Week exposed to Sale, and some part of the same are unsold; this is to inform the Curious, that there are most Noble Figures and Vauses for Gardens, Curious Antique Heads proper to adorn Libraries, to be sold under the prime Cost, Mrs. Van Nost being resolved to dispose of the whole; and are to be seen at his late Dwelling-House in Hide-Park-Road, near the Queen's Mead-House; where Attendance is given."

Included in this sale were Lot 49, a bust lead of Mr Locke and  Lot 62, Dr Locke as big as the life.


Info from - Getty research - http://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/pi/servlet.starweb

For much more detail of the life and works of John Nost I see -

http://liberty.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=1976&from_list=true&x=24

John van Nost II produced the equestrian figure of George I, now at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, another version is at Stowe.

John the second died in 1729, the business then being taken over by his widow ?

A sale of his effects held by his widow was advertised in the Guardian (No.60, 20 May, 1731) ..several extraordinary fine things"

John van Nost III assistant to Roubiliac was working in Dublin after 1748.

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From An Antiquarian Ramble in the Streets of London: with Anecdotes...Vol. 1.

by John Thomas Smith, pub. 1846.

This John van Nost is obviously John Nost III (1730 - 87), who went to Ireland in about 1750.

see my posts

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/10/bust-of-lord-chesterfield-by.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/10/marble-bust-of-samuel-madden-by-john.html

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/10/bust-of-thomas-prior-by-john-van-nost.html

etc.

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The reservoir in Green Park looking North to the Stone Bridge area of Portugal Row at the western end of Piccadilly, with the entrance to Half Moon Street to the left.

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Horwood's map of London 1817.

This crop shows the reservoir opposite Half Moon Street.

By this time the statuary business had left the area.

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