The Marble Bust of Robert Boyle (1627 - 91).
in the Long Room
at Trinity College Library,
Dublin.
Unsigned.
Workshop of Louis Francois Roubiliac.
This portrait is probably derived from the engravings of the original oil portrait by Kerseboom
(see below).
For much more on Boyle see -
Photographs taken by the Author - 4 October 2016.
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Robert Boyle.
Engraving by William Faithorne.
299 x 224 mm.
1664.
NPG
Robert Boyle.
Engraving.
Robert White.
After Kerseboom.
154 x 100 mm.
1670 - 1690.
British Museum.
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Robert Boyle.
after Kerseboom.
J Smith.
Mezzotint.
1689.
275 x 207 mm.
NPG.
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Robert Boyle.
Mezzotint.
after Johannes Kerseboom.
Pieter Schenk - Amsterdam
248 x 180 mm
Early 18th Century.
British Museum
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Robert Boyle
Bust in Queen Caroline's Hermitage, Richmond.
Mezzotint
347 x 244 mm.
The Marble bust of Boyle by Guelfi.
From Queen Carolines Hermitage Richmond,
For full details see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/queen-carolines-hermitage-at-richmond.html
Royal Collection.
Royal Collection.
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Another version of the Guelfi bust of Boyle.
At the Royal Socciety of Chemistry,
Burlington House, Piccadilly.
A marble bust of Boyle made by the Italian sculptor, Giovanni Battista Guelfi (fl. 1714-34), for Boyle’s distant relative, the 3rd Earl of Burlington, has recently come to light and is currently for sale at the Chelminski Gallery, 616 King’s Road, London, SW6. The bust, which was originally displayed at Lord Burlington’s Palladian villa, Chiswick House, and is believed to date from about 1723, is virtually identical to that commissioned by Queen Caroline for her grotto at Richmond in 1732-3. The latter survives in the royal collection at Kensington Palace and has long been well-known (it is discussed by R.E.W.Maddison in his exhaustive account of Boyle’s portraiture, and is reproduced as the frontispiece to the 2nd edition of J.F.Fulton’s Bibliography of Boyle, though in both places it is misattributed to J.M.Rysbrack).
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Engraving by George Vertue
after the original by Kerseboom in the collection of Richard Mead
1739.
424 x 289 mm.
NPG.
Robert Boyle
Mezzotint
after Johannes Kerseboom
Andrew Miller
pub. Dublin
348 x 250 mm
1744
British Museum
Robert Boyle
engraving - unlettered proof
Frontispiece to 'Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle'.
after Johannes Kerseboom.
Bernard Baron
301 x 200 mm.
1744
British Museum
Robert Boyle
The original portrait
Oil on Canvas.
Johann Kerseboom d.1708.
756 x 622 mm.
NPG.
Robert Boyle
by John Riley.
oil on canvas.
762 x 635 mm.
1689
Image Courtesy Royal Society
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Robert Boyle
Johann Kerseboom
Oil on Canvas.
1270 x 1035 mm
NPG
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Robert Boyle.
Royal Society.
Robert Boyle by Kerseboom
with dealer Philip Mould - Historical Portraits in 2001.
see
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/Issue4.html
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The
Honble Robert Boyl, Sr Isaac Newton, Mr John Flamsteed, Mr Edmund Hatley
Poets and Philosophers of
Mezzotint
one of a set of six plates.
by John Simon
352 x 250 mm
c.1730 - 40
British Museum
This mezzotint portrait of Boyle is obviously derived from the painted portrait below attribute to Jonathan Richardson.
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Low resolution portrait attrib. to Jonathan Richardson.
internet.
Royal Society of Chemistry.
Information very gratefully received from Michael Hunter.
Emeritus
Professor Michael Hunter, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College,
University of London.
For an introduction to the Life and Works of Boyle one can do no better than visit
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/Boyle/intro.htm
Professor Hunter also pointed me to the medallion below -
Bronze or Brass Medallion cast by Carl Reinhold Berch from an ivory by Jean Cavalier 1690.
British Museum.
