Bath, Art and Architecture: November 2017

Wednesday, 1 November 2017

The Marble Bust of Princess Amelia Sophia - Louis Francois Roubiliac.

The Marble Bust of Princess Amelia Sophia (1711 - 86).
Ad Vivum

Signed by L. F. Roubiliac.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Third Child (second daughter) of George II and Queen Caroline.

height, bust, 58.0, cm. height, socle, 14.8, cm. width, whole, 48.5, cm

Bought; 1955; T. H. W. Lumley,

Provenance:

The former owner told Mrs K. Esdaile that the bust had been given by William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, to his sister Lady Caroline Waldegrave, daughter of the 3rd Earl Waldegrave. Her mother had been a Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princesses Amelia and Caroline, and the latter had been left £4,000 in the Princess's will.

Purchased with the S.G. Perceval Fund.

Inscription: below her left shoulder; inscribed; L.F. Roubiliac Scit ad vivum

Exhibition.

Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England. 1984-05-16 - 1984-09-30

Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Catalogue number: S 13

Photographed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge by the author.

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Princess Amelia Sophia.

Christian Friederick Zincke (1684/4 - 1767)

Enamel

9.1 x 7.5 cms -outside

Royal Collection

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Prince Frederick, Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (1709 - 59) a the Harpsichord, Princess Caroline Elizabeth (1713 -57) playing a Mandora and Princess Amelia reading Milton's poetry, Kew Palace in the background.

Philip Mercier

1733

Oil on Canvas

451 x 578 mm

National Portrait Gallery

There are three versions of this group portrait the other one set indoors in the Royal Collection and another with the National Trust.

see -

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/5/collection/402414/the-music-party-frederick-prince-of-wales-with-his-three-eldest-sisters

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