Bust of Francis Bacon Magdalen College, Oxford by Edward Hodges Baily.

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.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/bust-of-francis-bacon-in-wren-library.html

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.

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 -

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/64/collection/79376/francis-bacon-viscount-st-albans

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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).

There is no mention of any bust of Bacion 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.

Unsigned but almost certainly from the workshop of Louis Francois Roubiliac.

My theory is that it 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).

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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

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/francis-bacon-15611626-1st-baron-verulam-and-viscount-st-albans-lawyer-philosopher-poet-and-lord-chancellor-134750/view_as/grid/search/works:francis-bacon-15611626-1st-baron-verulam-and-viscount-st-albans-lawyer-philosopher-poet-and-lord-chancellor/page/1

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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