David Garrick after Thomas Gainsborough.
19th
Century Copy of the original destroyed in a fire at Stratford upon Avon
After
Gainsborough
National
Trust - Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
Oil
on Canvas.
1137 x
756 mm.
The bust
of Shakespeare appears to be a version of the Rysbrack terracotta now at the
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Showing
the Palladian Bridge at Prior Park. Widcombe, Bath in the background.
Another
version of this painting is in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The
Original by Gainsborough was exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great
Britain at Spring Gardens Charing Cross in 1766.
David
Garrick with the bust of Shakespeare
Mezzotint
Valentine
Green
62.0 ×
38.6 cm plate size.
1769.
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The bust of David Garrick by Roubiliac
David
Garrick
Louis
Francois Roubiliac
Plaster
After an
original lost terracotta of circa 1750.
25 in.
(635 mm) high
National
Portrait Gallery.
The Marble
bust of Garrick by Roubiliac was sold by Christies on 23 June 1823 at the sale
of Mrs Garrick.
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Louis
Francois Roubiliac and the
bust of David Garrick
Andreas
Soldi.
Dated
1757.
Garrick
Club.
Another
version of this portrait is in the Dulwich picture Gallery which is
mentioned by George Vertue in his notebooks in November, 1751,
‘lately Mr Rubilliac the Statuary, his picture painted by Mr Soldi'
which instead of the bust of Garrick depicts the figure of Charity for the
Montagu tomb at Warkton, Northamptonshire (below).
Louis
Francois Roubiliac
Soldi
Dated
1751
97 x 83
mm.
Dulwich
Picture Gallery
©
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London / By permission of the Trustees
