Chronological List of the Roubiliac Portrait Busts First Draught.

The Portrait Busts of Louis Francois Roubiliac.

A Preliminary Chronological List.

First Draught.

This list was (mostly) initially derived from A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851. Edited and Enlarged.

The numbers on the left refer to the entries in the Website of the Henry Moore Foundation.

Unfortunately the online version is not entirely reliable - hopefully this online list will go some way to putting things right.

http://liberty.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=2322&from_list=true&x=0

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1730's.

57. – 1733 - Marshal Turenne. Untraced.

58. – 1733 - Prince de Condé.  Untraced.

These busts are mentioned in the periodical Le Pour et le Contre, XIV of November 1733, p.329. published in England by Abbe Prevost.

"M. Le Duc d’Argyle fait faire deux buste en marbre , l’un du Grande Conde, l’autre du Mal de Turenne. Il nempoi point M. Rysbrack, mais les connoisseursm’estiment pas moinsla main de M. Roubiliac, jeune Francais Eleve et digne imiateur du celebre Coustou".

see Figured in Marble, Malcom Baker. V & A Studies. pub 2000. p.153.

The drawing in the Harris Art Gallery Preston by Joseph Nollekins, probably drawn in the Roubiliac  in St Martins Lane studio at the time of his posthumous sale and published in Figured in Marble as Turenne, is not of of Turenne but of Oliver Cromwell (the terracotta in the British Museum).

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-harris-museum-preston-drawings-of.html

1735. Two Busts of the Italian Castrato Opera Singers.

Senesino - Bust of Francesco Bernardi called Senesino (1686 - 1756) Terracotta Bust.

Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Farinelli - Carlo Broschi called Farinelli (1705 - 82). A Lead Bust suggested as Farinelli. Private Collection

For the busts of Senesino and Farinelli see 

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/06/senesino-roubiliac.html

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59. 1737.  Sir Isaac Newton, Marble Bust.  Royal Society, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-terracotta-bust-of-isaac-newton-by.html

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/05/bust-of-isaac-newton-by-roubiliac-at.html

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1730’s. George Frederick Handel. Three quarter life size Plaster bust perhaps after a lost original by Roubiliac.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/asummary-of-researches-into-bust-of.html

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George Frederick Handel. Terracotta Bust. Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-grimsthorpe-castle-lincolnshire.html

1738. George Frederick Handel. The Vauxhall Gardens Marble Statue.  Victoria and Albert Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-vauxhall-gardens-statue-of-george.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/vauxhall-at-victoria-and-albert-museum.html

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1737/8. The William Seward bust of Alexander Pope. Marble Bust. Not signed or dated. Private Collection.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/in-following-blog-entries-i-intend-to.html

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/02/william-seward-1747-99-and-bust-of.html

60. 1738.  Alexander Pope. Marble Bust, signed and dated 1738. Temple Newsam House, Leeds Art Galleries, 6/42

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/3-thetemple-newsam-bust-of-alexander.html

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62.  c. 1738. Jonathan Tyers. Terracotta Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum A.94-1927.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O77818/jonathan-tyers-bust-roubiliac-louis-francois/

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/07/jonathan-tyers-and-his-bust-by-roubiliac.html

62/2 (83). The Marble bust of Tyers is currently in store at Birmingham Museums.

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63.  1739.  George Frederick Handel, Marble Bust, Windsor Castle, RCIN 35255.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/35255/george-frederick-handel-1685-1759

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-1739-marble-bust-of-handel-1685-1759.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-royal-collection-handel-bust.html

For the terracotta relief portrait of Handel at the Victoria and Albert Museum see -

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-roubiliac-terracotta-relief-of.html

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1739. Henry Streatfield, Terracotta Bust, dated 1739 on the socle.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/07/jonathan-tyers-and-his-bust-by-roubiliac.html

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64. George Frederick Handel, c1739. Terracotta Bust, Thomas Coram Foundation, Foundling Hospital Holborn, London.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-1739-marble-bust-of-handel-1685-1759.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-1739-marble-bust-of-handel-1685-1759.html

George Frederick Handel - Plaster Bust as the above bust.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/35255/george-frederick-handel-1685-1759

George Frederick Handel.  Plaster Bust – Gloucester Cathedral

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/06/comparison-photographs-of-gloucester.html

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1740's

65. - Alexander Pope, Marble Bust. Signed and dated 1740. Milton Hall, Cambs.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/4-themilton-fitzwilliam-bust-of.html

Alexander Pope. Milton Type Plaster Bust. Hughenden Manor, Bucks.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-roubiliac-type-plaster-busts-of.html

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66. - James Thomson, 1740. (Probably Rysbrack). Museum of London.

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67.   Lord Bolingbroke. pre-1740. Untraced.    

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c. 1740. Elizabeth Finch. Marble Bust. Kenwood House, English Heritage.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/04/bust-of-elizabeth-finch-by-henrietta.html  

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68. 1741. Alexander Pope, The David Garrick Marble Bust. Signed and dated 1741. Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/5-david-garrick-bust-of-alexander-pope.html

Alexander Pope, Plaster Bust, Shipley type Plaster Bust.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-roubiliac-type-plaster-busts-of.html

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61.c. 1740/1. Alexander Pope - terracotta bust. Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/6-thebarber-institute-terra-cotta-bust.html

69.  Alexander Pope, Marble Bust. Signed and Dated 1741.  Yale Centre British Art, New Haven Conn. B 1993.27

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666534

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/7.html

For a slightly smaller Plaster version in the British Museum see –

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=39189&partId=1&object=20961&page=1

see also, for the plaster busts of Pope.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-roubiliac-type-plaster-busts-of.html

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113.  c. 1741. John Milton. Terracotta bust. Not dated.  National Galleries of Scotland.

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3285/john-milton-1608-1674-poet-and-scholar

John Milton. Plaster Bust. Not dated. British Museum.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=39699&partId=1

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70.  Isaac Ware, Marble Bust. c1741.  First Version.  Detroit Institute of Arts, USA.

https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/bust-isaac-ware-59948

Isaac Ware, Marble Bust. Version 2 in the National Portrait Gallery.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/04/bust-of-architect-isaac-ware-1704-66-by.html

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71. c. 1741. William Hogarth. Terracotta Bust. National Portrait Gallery, London.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw03177/William-Hogarth?search=ap&subj=433%3BTerracotta&rNo=5

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There appears to be a long gap between 1741 and 1745 before Roubiliac produced another bust.

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72.  1745. Philip, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. Marble Bust. National Portrait Gallery. - 5829, 1985

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07197/Philip-Dormer-Stanhope-4th-Earl-of-Chesterfield

For the Bronze Bust in the Victoria and Albert Museum see –

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/07/bronze-bust-of-lord-chesterfield.html

For the bronze bust of Lord Chesterfield in the Louvre see -

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/07/bronze-bust-of-lord-chesterfield-in.html

1746. The Dublin Castle Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield see

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-dublin-castle-bronze-bust-of-philip.html

For the Plaster bust of Lord Chesterfield in the British Museum see:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=31423&partId=1&object=20961&page=1

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73. c. 1745. William Cheselden.  Plaster Bust. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/03/cheselden-and-belchier-royal-college-of.html

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122. Princess Amelia. Marble Bust. no date probably mid 1740’s. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-marble-bust-of-princess-amelia.html

http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?qu=adam%20and%20eve&oid=31017

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74. 1746. Lady Grisel Baillie. Mellerstain, Berwickshire, Scotland.

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75. 1747. Countess of Pembroke. Wilton, Wilts.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/portrait-sculpture-at-wilton-house-no-3.html

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76. 1747. Lady Murray of Stanhope. Mellerstain House, Berwickshire. Scotland

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77. 1747. Sir Andrew Fountaine.  Narford Hall, Norfolk.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/portrait-sculpture-at-wilton-house-no-4.html

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78. 1748. Arabella Aufrère. Marble Bust. Brocklesby Park, Lincs.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-bust-of-arabella-aufrere-by-louis.html

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79. 1749. Dean Jonathan Swift. Marble Bust. Long Room, Trinity College, Dublin.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/11/jonathan-swift-by-roubiliac-trinity.html

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80. 1749. Dr Martin Folkes.  Bust Wilton House, Wilts.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/post-under-construction.html

Dr Martin Folkes. Plaster Bust at the British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/10/jacques-antoine-dassier-16-medallions.html

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81.  1750. Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke.  Wilton House, Wilts.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/portrait-sculpture-at-wilton-house-part.html

For the Terracotta Bust at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (no photographs) see -

http://webapps.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/explorer/index.php?

qu=AcquiredFrom:Fitzwilliam%20AND%20AcquiredFrom:Richard&oid=29726

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84.  c1750. Unidentified man, probably Francis Hayman. Plaster Bust .Yale Centre for British Art B 1977.14.25

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/

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85.  1751. Archbishop Chichele. Marble Bust. All Souls College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/05/bust-of-henry-chichele-archbishop-of.html

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1751 – Francis Willoughby, Terracotta Bust, British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-francis-willughby-in-wren.html

86.  1751. Francis Willoughby, Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-francis-willughby-in-wren.html

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John Ray. Terracotta Bust, British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/05/john-ray-engraving-william-hibbert-of.html

87. 1751. John Ray. Marble Bust.  Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

(Extra detail of fur on the collar).

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-john-ray-in-wren-library.html

John Ray. With fur collar. Plaster Bust. Braintree Museum, Essex.

John Ray. With fur collar. Plaster Bust Victoria and Albert Museum. ex Boehm Collection.

John Ray. With Fur Collar. Plaster Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Ray. Plaster Bust. Peter Hone Collection (since disposed of).

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88. 1751. Sir Francis Bacon. Marble Bust. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

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

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2024/08/terracotta-bust-of-francis-bacon-at.html

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89. 1751.  Sir Isaac Newton. Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/01/marble-bust-of-isaac-newton-in-wren.html

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1754. Daniel Lock. Marble bust on Monument, Trinity College, Chapel, Cambridge.

http://trinitycollegechapel.com/about/memorials/sculptures/lock/

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1755, Sir Isaac Newton. Marble Statue. Trinity College, Cambridge.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/01/statue-of-newton-by-roubiliac-trinity.html

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90. 1755. Sir Mark Pleydell. Marble Bust. Victoria and Albert Museum (National Trust loan 1)

http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1439109

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1755. Dr Matthew Lee. Marble Bust. Christchurch College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/07/bust-of-dr-matthew-lee-by-roubiliac.html

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91. 1756.  Dr Richard Bentley. Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Dr Richard Bentley. Plaster Bust. British Museum.

Dr Richard Bentley. Plaster Bust now missing. Recently at Lambeth Palace.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-richard-bentley-in-wren-library.html

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92. 1756.  Dr Richard Mead. Marble Bust. Royal College of Physicians, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/09/bust-of-richard-meade-by-roubiliac.html

For the British Museum Plaster Bust of Richard Mead see -

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=39189&partId=1&object=20961&page=1

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c.1756. Isaac Barrow. Unfired Clay Bust.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=31672&partId=1&searchText=%22Isaac+Barrow%22&page=1

93.  1756. Isaac Barrow.  Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-isaac-barrow-in-wren-library.html

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94. 1757. Charles, Lord Whitworth. Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-lord-whitworth-wren-library.html

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95. 1757?  Colley Cibber. Painted Plaster Bust. National Portrait Gallery, London.

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1757. Dr Richard Frewin, Marble Bust. Bodleian Library, Oxford.

96. 1757. Dr Richard Frewen. Marble Bust. Library, Christ Church College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-busts-of-richard-frewin-by.html

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97. 1757.  Sir Edward Coke. Marble Bust, Wren Library Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-sir-edward-coke-wren-library.html

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1756/7. Sir Robert Cotton. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2015/05/

98. 1757. Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631). Marble Bust. Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-sir-robert-cotton-in-wren.html

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99. 1757.   Thomas, Baron Trevor. Marble Bust. Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/thomas-trevor-16921753-2nd-baron-trevor-275928

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100.   1758.  David Garrick. Gilt Bronze relief. Garrick Club, London.

http://garrick.ssl.co.uk/object-s0015

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101. c.1758. William Shakespeare. Terracotta bust. Garrick Club, London, inv 139.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-british-museum-and-garrick-club_96.html

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Charles I. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2014/01/asummary-of-researches-into-bust-of.html

102.  1759.  King Charles I.  Marble Bust. Wallace Collection, London.

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 1759 Edward Capell,  Enravings of a bust or relief in plaster British Museum

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0822-2292

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/03/edward-cappell-by-louis-francois.html

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103.  1760.  Joseph Wilton. Plaster Bust. Royal Academy London.

see - https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/bust-of-joseph-wilton-r-a

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104.   1759/60. Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester and Countess of Leicester (set on a monument signed by Charles Atkinson), Tittleshall Church, Norfolk.

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105 . c1761. John Wilkes. Marble Bust. Guildhall Museum , London, acc 1098

https://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2019/02/bust-of-john-wilkes-by-roubiliac.html

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107.  Admiral Peter Warren. Marble bust. no date. Huntington Art Coll, San Marino, California.

http://emuseum.huntington.org/objects/3122/sir-peter-warren-naval-officer?ctx=501ef96c-0c19-4357-adeb-a20bb14c85d4&idx=3

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110.  Dr John Belchier, Plaster Bust. undated. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

William Cheselden. Plaster Bust. Royal College of Surgeons, London.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/03/cheselden-and-belchier-royal-college-of.html

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112. George Frederick Handel Marble Bust, (bare-headed). Private coll.

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106. c.1761. John, 1st Earl Ligonier. Terracotta bust. National Portrait Gallery (1924)

see https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw03912/John-Ligonier-1st-Earl-Ligonier

114.  John, Lord Ligonier. Marble Bust. not dated. Royal Collection, RCIN 35256 (1817).

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/07/bust-of-ligonier-by-roubiliac.html

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/10/busts-of-george-ii-and-john-first-earl.html

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118.  King George II. Marble bust.  no date.  Windsor Castle, Royal Collection.

https://www.rct.uk/collection/35256/john-1st-earl-ligonier-1680-1770

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2017/10/busts-of-george-ii-and-john-first-earl.html

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115. 1762. King Charles I. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/03/charles-i-roubiliac.html

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Oliver Cromwell. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

https://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2019/02/oliver-cromwell-by-roubiliac-british.html

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William Shakespeare. Terracotta Bust. British Museum.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-british-museum-and-garrick-club_96.html

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117.  King Edward VI. King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, Warks. ????

Another bust for which there doesn’t appear to be any evidence for the involvement of Roubiliac

It appears to have been supplied with a chimneypiece by Scheemakers see Biog. Dictionary.

https://www.ribapix.com/designs-for-king-edward-vi-grammar-school-new-street-birmingham-elevation-of-a-pre-existing-fireplace-surmounted-by-the-bust-of-a-boy-wearing-a-plumed-hat_riba66387

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119.  Marcus Aurelius from a cast brought from Rome. Bust nd .  BM, London

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120.   Molière. Bust. no date. Untraced.  probably a misattribution.

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123.   Roubiliac Self-portrait. Marble bust.  no date. National Portrait Gallery, London.

This is the bust supposedly of Roubiliac is currently attributed by the NPG to Joseph Wilton.

There is no evidence for this attribution.

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2019/01/bust-of-roubiliac-or-not.html

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124.  Socrates, Plato, Demosthenes, Tully. 4 busts from the antique, material unspecified.  no dates. British Museum, London. Untraced.

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125. Time. Bust  no date.           untraced.

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Nicholas Hawksmore. Plaster Bust. Coddrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford.

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-portrait-sculpture-in-codrington_14.html