Soane Museum 8 - Plaster bust of Christopher Wren and the marble bust in The Ashmolean Museum

Soane Museum 8 - 
Some notes on

Sir Christopher Wren F.R.S. (1632 - 1723)

Plaster bust.

late 18th /Early 19th Century.

After the original by Edward Pearce.
and 
Sir Christopher Wren
The Marble Bust 
by Edward Pearce
Ashmolean Museum Oxford

Christopher Wren 

Plaster

Low resolution photograph of the plaster bust of Christopher Wren from The St Paul's Cathedral website

Sizes - Height 76 x Width 61  x Depth 29 cms .

Another view of the St Paul's bust of Christopher Wren.

The form of the socle woul;d suggest that it was manufactured by the same caster as the Soane bust.

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 Sir Christopher Wren (1632 - 1723).

Marble Bust 

Edward Pierce

Ashmolean Museum Oxford

Page from Catalogue of the Portraits ... University Colleges... Oxford, Poole

Sir Christopher Wren FRS

Edward Pearce (1635 - 95).

Height 66.1 cms.

Presented by Christopher Wren (his son) to the University of Oxford in 1737.

Transferred to the Ashmolean Museum in 1916.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Photographed by the author.

Pearce would have known Wren intimately. He joined the St Paul's Office as a Master Mason under Wren in 1678 and left in 1690.

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Sir Christopher Wren FRS

after Sir Godfrey Kneller

St Paul's Cathedral.

There is another version in the National Portrait Gallery.

They say by Kneller

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Christopher Wren

Klosterman (1660 - 1711).

143 x 121 cms

Originally framed together as a double portrait with his father Christopher Wren DD and later separated ( the portrait of Wren senior now missing).. Donated to the Royal Society in 1750 by Stephen Wren gandson of Sir Christopher

Royal Society

see - http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/67/2/173.

Sir Christopher Wren

David le Marchand

Ivory Relief

127 x 92 mm

c. 1720

Purchased 1966.
Provenance a distant relation of the sitter

National Portrait Gallery

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Sir Christopher Wren FRS
Wedgwood Jasparware
12.4 x 9.8 cms
Late 18th Century

After the Ivory relief by le Marchand in the NPG
Metropolitan Museum, New York.




Sir Christopher Wren FRS

Wedgwood Jasparware relief in gilt Metal Frame
Royal Collection

Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017





Sir Christopher Wren FRS
Engraved from a bust by Coignard
Engraving from Parentalia by Christopher Wren Junior.

c. 1750

see - http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?record=O4495&_IXlink=y
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Sir Christopher Wren

Arttributed to David le Marchand.

Ivory Relief

I think the monogram might be spurious. This relief has none of the quality of the relief at the NPG

British Museum

Christopher Wren

 after Godfrey Kneller

Mezzotint

Engraved and Published by J Smith

1711

Image from The Victoria and Albert Museum

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Sir  Christopher Wren FRS.

Boxwood Relief

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Bronze Medallion

Gotlieb Daniel Gaab (1714 - 84).

two medallions were exhibited at the Free Society, 5 King Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden in 1783

Probably made to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the death of Wren