Hugh Boulter (1672 - (1742).
Archbishop of Armagh.
Anonymous Marble Bust.
Christ Church College Gallery, Oxford.
Anonymous, competent but rather undistinguished bust
the cutting of the hair is quite crude.
To me it feels that it was probably posthumous taken from an engraving.
Perhaps Henry Cheere or Scheemakers studio.
The remarkable Rococo Monument to Dr Hugh Boulter
Archbishop of Armagh
Formerly Bishop of Bristol
North Transept Westminster Abbey
Henry Cheere.
Erected in 1746.
Erected in 1746.
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/hugh-boulter/
Westminster Abbey have uprated their website - not before time - and although the images are not high resolution they are a vast improvement on the previous incarnation.
The inscription reads -
Is this bust by Cheere or was it sub contracted?
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Westminster Abbey have uprated their website - not before time - and although the images are not high resolution they are a vast improvement on the previous incarnation.
The inscription reads -
"Dr HUGH BOULTER,
late Archbishop of ARMAGH and Primate
of all IRELAND.
A prelate so eminent
for the accomplishments of his mind,
the
purity of his heart,
and the excellency of his life,
that it may be superfluous
to specify his titles,
recount his virtues,
or even erect a monument to his
fame:
his titles he not only deserv'd but adorn'd,
his virtues he manifest in
his good works,
which had never dazzled the public eye
if they had not been too
bright to be conceal'd;
And, as to his fame,
who so every has any sense of
merit,
any reverence for piety,
any passion for his country,
or any charity for
mankind,
will assist in preserving it fair and spotless;
that when brass and
marble shall mix with the dust they cover,
every succeeding age
may have the benefit
of his illustrious example.
He was born Jan. the 4th 1671,
he was consecrated
bishop of BRISTOL 1718,
he was translated to the Archbishopric of ARMAGH 1723,
and from thence to Heaven, Sept. the 27th 1742."
Is this bust by Cheere or was it sub contracted?
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Dr Hugh Boulter
The obvious soource of the mezzotints below
Oil on canvas
126.4 x 101.5 cms
bequeathed to the museumby William Jerdone Braikenridge, 1908
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.
image from Art UK
Dr Hugh Boulter
A version of the portrait above
oil on canvas
124.5 x 99.1 cms
Christ Church College, Oxford.
Image courtesy Art UK
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Dr Hugh Boulter
After Francis Bindon
c.1742
1242 x 1003 mm.
National Portrait Gallery
Crudely painted, NPG 502 is conceivably an early copy of
Francis Bindon's portrait at Trinity College, Dublin, painted in 1742 as a
'memorial of the Archbishop's charitable efforts during the famine of 1740-41’.
[1] Although the sitter is shown much younger in Thomas Beard's mezzotint,
1728, after Matthew Ashton, the design is similar to NPG 502 and the face mask
close to Bindon's.
Footnotes
W. G. Strickland, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures
... in Trinity College, Dublin, and in the Provost's House, Dublin, 1916, pp
10-11; Dictionary of National Biography, II, p 915.
Bought, 1878, from R. Gibbings of Trinity College, Dublin,
by whom stated to have been in the Castle Caldwell collection, County
Fermanagh; on loan to the National Gallery of Ireland, 1899-1969.
Dr Hugh Boulter
Oil on Canvas
123 x 98 cms
Another anonymous version of the portrait above
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Image courtesy Art UK
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Dr Hugh Boulter.
Mezzotint.
by Thomas Beard after Matthew Ahton
350 x 246mm
1728.
British Museum.
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Dr Hugh Boulter
Mezzotint
Thomas Beard after Matthew Ashton
369 x 252 mm.
Published in Dublin
1728.
National Portrait Gallery
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Dr Hugh Boulter
Mezzotint
360 x 356 mm
John Brookes after Michael Dahl
The print depicts Robert Howard in the first two states
before being altered to Hugh Boulter
1740 - 56
British Museum
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Dr Hugh Boulter
Mezzotint after Francis Bindon
by John Brooks
508 x 374 mm.
1742 - 56?
British Museum
