Bust of Isaac Newton, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Marble Bust of Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727),

Wren Library, Trinity College,

Cambridge.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Signed L.F. Roubiliac Sculpit. 1751.

I have published at great length on the busts and portraits of Newton in my parallel blog

see - http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/

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For the Roubiliac Royal Society marble bust and the Greenwich terracotta see -

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/bust-of-isaac-newton-by-roubiliac-at.html

The two coloured images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

Oil on Canvas

76.2 x 63.5 cms

1702

Bequeathed by Dr William Hunter in 1783

Hunterian Museum Glasgow.

Sir Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

126 x 100 approx.

Grantham Museum

Acquired 1987.

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 -

http://www.facebook.com/trin.coll.cam.lib

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), 

 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/plate-261

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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

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

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 Thornhill

1270 x 1022 mm.

dated 1710

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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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 -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bentley