The Marble Bust of William Shakespeare
in the Long Room,
Trinity College Library,
Dublin.
signed Peter Scheemakers.
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The Peter Scheemakers Marble Bust of William Shakespeare at Hagley Hall.
The four busts of Shakespeare, Spenser, Dryden and Milton by Peter Scheemakers in the
broken pediments of the bookcases in the Library at Hagley Hall were given to
Alexander Pope by Frederick, Prince of Wales; they were bequeathed by Pope, who
died in 1743 to Lord Lyttelton. They were in the Library in the new house in
1747/48.
Some
time after buying Carlton House in 1732, Prince Frederick commissioned two sets
of library busts from Peter Scheemakers, one set for himself - which seems to
have disappeared and the second set as a gift to Alexander Pope.
A bill
for £107 4s was examined by William Kent as overseer and paid 22 November 1735,
included the set of busts charged at £10 each (Duchy of Cornwall Household
Accounts) it is unclear whether they were for the library at Carlton House or
for Kents magnificent saloon in the Rotunda in the garden, built in 1735 -
(adorned with paintings and sculpture - Grub Street Journal 2 September
1735)
Prince Frederick,
William Kent and the Garden Building at Carlton House has already touched on in
my blog entry 12 August 2015.
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