Bath, Art and Architecture: 12/04/16

Sunday, 4 December 2016

Bust of Aristotle in the Long Room, Trinity College Dublin.

The Marble Bust of Aristotle

in the Long Room, Trinity College,

Dublin.

Unsigned - whilst there is no proof all the evidence would suggest that this bust, one of the 5 unsigned busts at Trinity is almost certainly from the St Martin's Lane workshop of Louis Francois Roubiliac.

see - http://burlington.org.uk/media/_file/generic/886825.pdf
article by Malcolm Baker

Bust of Cicero in The Long Room Trinity College Library, Dublin.

A Marble Bust Representing Cicero

in The Long Room, Trinity College Library,

Dublin.

Peter Scheemakers.

signed P.S. Ft.

Photographed by the Author, 6 October 2016

After a drawing by Rubens

Bust of Julius Caesar wrongly believed to represent Cicero.

From Rubens Antiquities Collection

engraving by Jan Witdoeck

339 x 232 mm

1638.

from the series Twelve Famous Greek and Roman Men.

British Museum.

Head and shoulders from a sculpted bust, directed to left, wearing a fringed toga with a circular clasp at the right shoulder. Mezzotint

Cicero

After Rubens

Anon Mezzotint.

202 x 150 mm.

c1670 - 1730?

British Museum.

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Bronze bust of 'Cicero'

Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656 - 1740).

after the ancient Ufizzi bust. (see below).

From a series of twelve heads made for the Liechtenstein princely palaces.

Height 60 cms.

Liechtenstein Museum Vienna

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Cicero. Marble. 1st century BCE. Florence, Gallery of Uffizi

Marble Bust of 'Cicero'

Ufizzi Gallery,

Florence.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield with his bust of 'Cicero'
after William Hoare
Mezzotint
John Brookes
496 x 348 mm.
c.1748

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Lead Bust of Cicero probably by John Cheere
at Heywood - Garden designed by Lutyens
Photograph from Country Life 1917

see my post - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/asummary-of-researches-into-bust-of.html

Cicero
Plaster bust
Stourhead
National Trust.
Probably by John Cheere or a cast from a model by him.

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Two Wedgwood Busts
Cicero and Seneca 1790.
48 cms and 46.9 cms.

see - http://www.europeanporcelain.com/index.pl?isa=Metadot::SystemApp::AntiqueSearch;op=detail;id=149512;image_id=446584;#

For the Wedgwood busts see -

The Wedgwood Handbook: A Manual for Collectors. Treating of the Marks ...

By Eliza Meteyard, 1875 - available on Google books

Bust of Archbishop Usher in the Long Room at Trinity College Library, Dublin.

A Marble Bust of Archbishop James Us(s)her (1581 - 1656).

Benefactor

in the Long Room at Trinity College Library,

Dublin.

by Peter Scheemakers.

Signed P.S. Ft.

Photographed by the Author - 4 October 2016.

For the busts at in the Library at Trinity See -

Anne Crookshank & David Webb. Paintings and sculptures in Trinity College Dublin. Dublin: Trinity College Dublin Press. 1990. [Includes pictures of all busts and brief biographies of the subjects].

W. G. Strickland. A descriptive catalogue of the pictures, busts and sculptures in Trinity College Dublin and in the Provost’s House. Dublin: The University Press. 1916. [Brief biographies of subjects, but no illustrations].

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There are a surprisingly large number of engravings of the Archbishop, any one or a number of which could have been the source for the Scheemaker bust.

Below are a selection from the National Portrait Gallery.