The Marble Bust of Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
Magdalen College, Oxford.
by Edward Hodges Baily.
After the Original by Louis Francois Roubiliac
1828.
Paired with the bust of John Locke.
Edward Hodges Baily
This post is a brief survey of the Roubiliac type busts of Francis Bacon.
I have already posted on the Wren Library bust of Bacon by Roubiliac, but since this posting I have visited and taken my own photographs of all the portrait sculpture at the Wren Library and Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge and will be updating my previous posts in the near future.
Whilst their are very obvious similarities in the depiction of the hair and ruff the clothing has been adapted by Hodges Baily.
In my opinion a competent bust marred by the finish of the ruff, particularly in the very obvious drilling in the folds at the edge.
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A Marble Bust of Francis Bacon.
After Roubiliac.
suggested here as workshop of Hodges Bailey
Royal Collection.
Privy Chamber, Kensington Palace.
78 cms tall.
They say 18th Century - there is no record on the website for when it entered the Royal Collection.
Image from -
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Marble Bust of Francis Bacon.
Louis Francois Roubiliac.
1751.
Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Photographed by the author.
There is / was a plaster cast in the library at Wilton House (Esdaile).
This must refer to the terracotta now in the double cube room at Wilton.
see my post
There is no mention of any bust of Bacon in the Roubiliac auction sale catalogue at his St Martin's Lane workshop by Langford's12 - 15th May 1762.
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Francis Bacon.
Library, Trinity College, Dublin.
Photograph by the author.
Unsigned but almost certainly from the workshop of Louis Francois Roubiliac.
My theory is that the unsigned busts at Trinity are perhaps works by John van Nost III,
perhaps working in the studio of Louis Francois Roubiliac and based on an original by Roubiliac.
It is possible that the missing original terracotta was once in the British Museum (see the ambiguous reference in Esdaile page 105).
Update 13 August 2024.
It is now clear that the terracotta is at Wilton House.
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Francis Bacon
Sudbury,
National Trust
Cheere type bust by Robert Shout of Holburn.
see - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/two-mysterious-plaster-busts-probably.html
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Francis Bacon.
John Cheere
Supplied in 1749
Plaster Height 22"
Supplied to Kirkleatham Hall by Cheere.
York Museums.
Whilst these busts appear to resemble the Roubiliac type busts. They were probably an invention by John Cheere or somone in his workshop at Hyde Park Corner.
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Bronze Medallion
by Jean Dassier
Bronze 42 mm Diam.
1733.
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Francis Bacon
Bronze Medallion
by Thomas Bushell
41 mm
1660
British Museum
see - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=952059&partId=1&searchText=Francis+Bacon&page=1
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All the 18th century images seem to derive from the engraving below by Simon de Passe
Francis Bacon
Simon van de Passe
Engraving
182 x 115 mm
c. 1618
British Museum
An engraving of Francis Bacon (1561–1626), politician and
philosopher, Privy Councillor from 1616, Lord Chancellor from 1618, Viscount St
Alban from 1621. Portrait wearing hat, with high ruff, brocade corselet and fur
mantle. Holding the purse of the Great Seal. This print records Bacon's role as
Lord Keeper, which he held from March 1617, but not his appointment as Lord
Chancellor in January 1618, suggesting it was made in the latter part of 1617.
The plate was later altered to be a portrait of Thomas Coventry.
Francis Bacon
Crispian de Passe
Engraving
154 x 97 mm
1617 - 1630.
British Museum
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Francis Bacon
Frontispiece to Bacon's 'Of the advancement of Learning' 1640
and 'The Historie of the Reign of King Henry VII' 1641
William Marshall
Engraving, 1640.
British Museum.
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Francis Bacon.
William Larkin.
Oil on Panel.
113 x 83 cms.
c. 1617.
Trinity College, Cambridge.
Gifted from Peter Burrel - 1751.
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Portland Stone bust of Francis Bacon in the Temple of Worthies
at Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Michael Rysbrack
1728
see my previous post - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/temple-of-british-worthies-at-stowe.html
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