Sunday 18 December 2016

Bust of Richard Bentley in the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Marble Bust of Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742). 
Fellow of the Royal Society.
Master of Trinity College (1700 - 42)
in the Wren Library,
Trinity College, Cambridge.
by Louis Francois Roubiliac.
Signed L.F. Roubilic SCt.



All images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

I am very grateful to Sandy Paul, Sub Librarian at Trinity College Library for arranging for me to receive these photographs.
see -









This photograph of this bust  from Trinity College, Library, Sculptured Busts', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), 
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The British Museum Low Fired Clay Bust of Richard Bentley.
 Height 65 cms.

















Richard Bentley
Plaster cast
Lambeth Palace
Scan from Esdaile 
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Richard Bentley (1662–1742), Master (1700–1742), Philologist and Classical Scholar

Richard Bentley
Sir James Thornhill
Oil on canvas.
125 x 102 cms.
1710
Trinity College, Cambridge

Bequeathed by the sitter.

This would appear to be the original of all the other portraits of Bentley.

Richard Bentley, by George Vertue, after  Sir James Thornhill, early 18th century - NPG D27458 - © National Portrait Gallery, London


Richard Bentley
Engraving
after James Thornhill.
George Vertue
214 x 161 - Paper size.
dated 1710
© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Richard Bentley
Copy of the portrait by Thornhill.
St John's College, Cambridge.


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Richard Bentley, after Sir James Thornhill, (1710) - NPG 851 - © National Portrait Gallery, London


Richard Bentley
After Thornhill
1270 x 1022 mm.
dated 1710

© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Richard Bentley by Thomas Hudson (1701-1779, United Kingdom)

Richard Bentley
Thomas Hudson
Oil on Canvas
239 x 148 cms
Trinity College, Cambridge
Gifted from ED Garforth, 1749

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For a life of Bentley see -
Richard Bentley by Kristine Louise Haugen, pub Harvard University Press, 2011.



For a very useful overview of the life of Bentley see -

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