The Roubiliac Monuments.
St Gile's Parish Church.
Wrexham.
Part 2.
With a few further examples of Roubiliac's smaller relief monuments for comparison.
The Monument to Rev. Thomas and Mrs Arabella Myddleton.
Thomas Myddleton d. 1754.
Part 2.
With a few further examples of Roubiliac's smaller relief monuments for comparison.
The Monument to Rev. Thomas and Mrs Arabella Myddleton.
Thomas Myddleton d. 1754.
Arabella Myddleton d. 1756.
Photographs by the author.
Attributed to Roubiliac.
Design for a monument.
c. 1753.
Drawing Pencil, pen and ink wash.
330 x 200 mm.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Possibly one of two designs (media unspecified) for Mr and Mrs Middleton sold in the Roubiliac Sale of May 1762 (2nd day lot 71).
This drawing is illustrated and commented on in Rococo Art and Design in Hogarth's England, Exhibition Catalogue Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984. This catalogue entry suggests that it was a rejected design for the monument to William Harvey and his wife in St Andrews Church Hempstead, Essex. It is doubtful whether the author had actually seen this monument (see below). Whilst there are similarities in the two portrait reliefs the superstructure is completely different.
The monument to Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke in Battersea Church also has similarities.
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Monument to Richard Children (d. 1753)
Signed L.F. Roubiliac invt et sct.
St Peter's and St Paul's Parish Church
Tonbridge, Kent.
With verses by James Cawthorn
O thou, whose Manners unadorned by Art / Ennobled every
Virtue of the Heart, / Fond to forbid in each sad scene of Woe
The Pang to torture, and the Tear to flow, / Take from the
Muse, thou Lov'd, this honest Line / Sacred to Goodness, and a soul like thine,
A Soul supreme, that 'midst fair Ease and Health / The
Warmths of Nature, and the Pomps of Wealth / Careless of all that wild Ambition
Fires
All Av'rice wishes, and all Pride admires, / Gave Year on
Year beneath her genial Ray / To melt in modest Innocence away,
And made each Passion, spite of all its Rage, / Calm as her
Sun, — set in unclouded Age.
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Monument to Henry Fynes.
Roubiliac c. 1758/9.
Wing, Buckinghamshire.
Photograph from - http://www.ipernity.com/doc/stiffleaf/42975166/in/keyword/1567243/self
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Monument to Jane (d. 1744) and Cecilia Kerridge (d. 1747)
St Michaels Church, Framlingham.
Erected by William Folkes
c. 1747/8.
Cecilia Folkes left the manor of Shelley to William Folkes, barrister and younger brother of Martin Folkes (PRO Prob. II 764 fols 356 v - 357r).
Roubiliac sculpted the bust of Martin Folkes.
see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-plaster-bust-of-martin-folkes-at.html
http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/05/bust-of-isaac-newton-by-roubiliac-at.html
Info above from Roubiliac and the Eighteenth Century Monument, Bindman and Baker, Yale 1995.
p.175 and 341.
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Monument to Anne Taylor
St Mary Magdalene
Newark.
Signed LF Roubiliac invt. et Sct.
c. 1757/8.
On the east wall of the north transept is the marble memorial erected to their youngest daughter,
Anne Taylor, wife of Dr Robert Taylor, Physician Extraordinary to the King. It
is in marble, comprising a profile bust surmounting a detailed inscription, and
it is executed by Roubiliac.
http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/newark-st-mary/hmonumnt.php________________________________
Monument to William Harvey (d. 1742 ) and his wife Mary (d. 1761).
Erected in 1758.
St Andrews Church
Hempstead, Essex
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St Mary's Parish Church
Battersea
Henry St John, d.1751, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of War
and Secretary of State under Queen Anne, ‘one of the brilliant lights of the
Augustan age of literature in England’, noting that ‘his attachment to queen
Anne exposed him to a long and severe persecution; he bore it with firmness of
mind. He passed the latter part of his time at home, the enemy of no national
party, the friend of no faction, distinguished under the cloud of a
proscription which had not been entirely taken off, by zeal to maintain the liberty,
and to restore the antient prosperity of GREAT BRITAIN.’ The other half of the
shield-shaped, black polished panel commemorates his wife, Mary Clara des
Champs de Marcilly, Marchioness of Villette and Viscountess Bolingroke, d.1750
– both epitaphs were in fact written by Bolingbroke himself.
image courtesy - http://www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/batterseach.htm
The present Battersea Church was built by Richard Dixon in 1775/77 replacing the much decayed old church.
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Monument to Elizabeth Craven (d. 1728).
Signed L.F. Roubiliac Sct.
St Mary's Church, Scarborough
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Monument to Spencer Cowper (1670 - 1728).
Louis Francois Roubiliac.
Hertingfordbury, Herts.
Some much better photographs taken by the author here -
Monument to Spencer Cowper (1670 - 1728).
Louis Francois Roubiliac.
Hertingfordbury, Herts.
Spencer Cowper Monument.
Heringfordbury, Herts.
Poor quality internet photographs.
for a biog of Spencer Cowper see -
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Monument to Elizabeth Smith
Roubiliac
St Botolph's, Aldersgate, City of London.
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Monument to William Stapleton.
St Peter.
Port Royal, Jamaica.
For an excellent in depth look at Sir William Stapleton see -
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Detail clearly showing the Roubiliac Inscription.
Poor quality image from a Commercial photography website
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From an original Photograph of 1862.
Photograph courtesy Bristol Museums Galleries Archives.
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