Victoria and Albert Museum.
This was bust was knocked from
its pedestal in 1975, resulting in a large chip under the right shoulder, which
has been repaired.
Inscribed 'ROBERTUS D.nus
RAYMOND.Capital./Justic. Anglice, obiit XVIIIo. Martii/MDCCXXXII/Aetat. LX.'
Height: 60 cm.
Purchased by H.M.
Calmann from the Filmer family of East Sutton, Kent at an unrecorded date.
For the Filmer family see :
Purchased by Dr. W.L. Hildburgh F.S.A. from H.M. Calmann for £25. Given by
Hildburgh in 1947 as a New Year gift.
Bibliographic
References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
Bilbey, Diane and
Trusted Marjorie. British Sculpture 1470 to 2000. A Concise Catalogue of the
Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum. London, 2002. pp. 112-113. cat.
no. 153
Baker, M. Figured in
marble. The making and viewing of eighteenth-century sculpture. London, 2000.
p. 82.
Whinney, M. Sculpture
in Britain 1530 to 1830. 2nd ed. London, 1988. p. 453. note. 8 (1).
Whinny, M. English
sculpture 1720-1830. London, 1971. p. 64.
[Entry] In: Colvin,
H. M. A biographical dictionary of British architects.
Craske, M. The silent
rhetoric of the body. New Haven, 2008. pp. 405-409.
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Sir Robert Raymond.
Educated Eton College and Christ's College, Cambridge called to the Bar in 1697.
Married Anne Northey (1677 - 17 daughter of Sir Edward Northey.
In 1710 Robert Raymond was
appointed solicitor-general and in that same year became Member of Parliament
for Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. Soon afterwards he was knighted. On the
accession of George I in 1714 he was replaced as solicitor-general. He then
became, successively, MP for Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, Ludlow and Helston,
whilst continuing his legal career.
He became a judge in 1724 and flourished
when Sir Robert Walpole became Britain's first Prime Minister, being appointed
Lord Chief Justice in 1725, a position he held for eight years - . Anne died in 1720 and Robert was elevated to the
peerage in 1731.
He died at his home in Red Lion Square, London on 18 March
1733, leaving his estate of Langleybury, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire to his
and Anne's only surviving son, also Robert. Three other boys died within a few
weeks of birth and were buried with their paternal grandmother.
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Langleybury House, Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire.
The estate was
purchased in 1711 by Robert Raymond, then Solicitor General and later Attorney
General.
In 1720 he demolished
the original house, of which little is known, and built the mansion which still
stands on the site today. A park was laid out around the house in the later
eighteenth century. His cipher, a griffin in a crown, can still be seen on the
building.
Beversham Filmer and the Filmers at Abbots Langley from 1756 – 1838.
On the death of his
son, Robert Raymond, 2nd Baron Raymond, without issue in 1756, the manor was
left to Sir Beversham Filmer, 5th Baronet, of East Sutton in Kent. He, dying
without children in 1805, bequeathed it to his nephew, Sir John Filmer, 7th
Baronet. It then descended in the family till 1838. The Filmers were
absentee landlords.
This explains the connection between Raymond and the Filmer family and it is likely that the bust remained with the Filmer family until sold to Lalman in the 20th century.
All photographs above taken by the author.
For a reasonably good biog of Robert Raymond see:
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Monument to Robert Raymond, St Lawrence Church, Abbots Langley. Herts.
The monument Inscribed Henry Cheere.
Designed by Westby Gill (1678 - 1745).
Put up c. 1733 - 35.
see - London Evening Post, 25 Oct. 1735
Westby Gill was an architect and master carpenter active in
England in the early- to mid-18th century until his death in October 1746.
He was the son of Colonel John Gill of Carr-house,
Rotherham, England and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Deputy Surveyor of the Office of works for the Crown
Elected fellow of the the Society of Antiquaries in 1738.
Designed Burrow Hall, Burrow-with-Burrow, Lancashire c 1740 for MP Robert Fenwick.
Gill is known to have designed both country houses and
funerary monuments and was responsible for the circular Ionic temple erected at
Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire in 1741, to have been designed by
Westby Gill of the Office of Works, for a 'Mr. Gill' is referred to as the
architect in letters from the London mason, Andrews Jelfe, relating to the
supply of Portland stone for its construction in 1741.
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Monument to Robert Raymond.
Abbots Langley Church.
Platinum Print.
George Scamell.
1902.
The Abbots Langley Monument.
Photograph by George Scamell.
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Platinum Print 1902.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
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19th Century? Watercolour of the Raymond Monument.
Image below from the British Museum.
For a very useful article on Henry Cheere Monuments see
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Of Tangential interest.
The Monument to William, Lord Cheyne, 2nd Viscount Newhaven d. 1728
and his wife Gertrude nee Pierrepont d. 1732.
The monument is inscribed by William Woodman - but it is a moot point whether it was the father or son who carved it.
William Woodman I (d. 1731?)
William Woodman II (d. 1741)
This is a very fine monument which I wasn't aware of until very recently.
William Woodman I. Attributed Drawings:
Design for a monument to Sir Robert
Clayton, his wife and infant son, c1703: HMI/Leeds City Art Galleries,
1999.0008 (Leeds 2001, 12, repr);
Design for a cartouche monument, VAM
D.1100-98;
Design for the monument to Lady Brownlow, †1700, at Sutton, Surrey,
VAM D.1104-98;
Design for a monument with a standing figure of a man in
chancellor’s robes, D.1105-98; unfinished design for a monument, VAM D.1113-98;
Monument design based on S Gribelin, A Book of Ornaments, 1700, pl 1, VAM D.1139-98;
Design for a monument to Lady Roberts, †1690, at St Mary by Bow, London, VAM
E.959-1965
They say -
"The Viscount is a relatively stiff reclining figure in state
robes, reminiscent of effigies carved at the turn of the 18th century by
Grinling Gibbons. He lies on a sarcophagus and behind him is a pyramid.
By
contrast his wife’s effigy, seated at his feet, is posed in a vital, informal
manner and carved with extraordinary skill.
The monument was probably
commissioned soon after Newhaven’s death in 1728, but the remarkable image of
Lady Newhaven appears to have been added after her death in 1732, by which time
Woodman had also died".
"It was probably carved by Henry Cheere??. Here is where I diverge with the writer of the Henry Moore Inst - given what we know about Cheere and subcontracting - whilst there is no argument regarding the skills of Henry Cheere as a designer and astute business man I can see no reason why the figure of Lady Newhaven cannot be attributed to William Woodman II or much more likely another more accomplished sculptor (LFR?).
Gunnis noted
that this ‘remarkable’ memorial in its rarely-visited church ‘is one of the
most outstanding monuments in England’."
The figure of Lady Newhaven is obviously by a different and more accomplished hand but sits rather uncomfortably on the plinth of the reclining figure.
for a useful biography see -
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/cheyne-hon-william-1657-1728
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Robert Raymond.
Portrait c. 1725.
John van der Vaart (1653 - 1727).
Oil on canvas.
127 x 102.2 cms.
Sold Lot 13, May 2010 by Doyles, New York.
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Robert Raymond.
John Simon after James Maubert.
Mezzotint c. 1730's.
350 x 247 mm.
British Museum.
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Robert Raymond.
Mezzotint by George Vertue.
National Galleries of Scotland.
Robert Raymond.
Mezzotint.
368 x 260 paper size.
John Simon after Jonathan Richardson 1727.
National Portrait Gallery.
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Robert Raymond.
Attributed to John Vanderbank (1694 - 1739).
Oil on Canvas.
238.8 x 137.3 cms.
Examination Schools, University of Oxford.
Gift of Uriah Shudall, 1735.
Image courtesy Art UK.
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Monument to the 2nd Lord Raymond (1717 - 1756).
Erected 1756?
Abbots Langley Church.
by Peter Scheemakers.
Photographs above from the website of Bob Speel.
Charity or Abundance.
Peter Scheemaker (1691 - 1781).
Model for the monument of the second Lord Raymond.
Terracotta
41.9 cms.
At Christie's, London,
11 December 1984, lot no. 20, sold to Cyril Humphris for £432. Purchased for
£1000 from Cyril Humphris, London, 1985.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Peter Scheemakers
(1691-1781) was born in Antwerp and trained under his father, the sculptor
Peter Scheemaekers the Elder (1652-1714). Scheemakers was in London by 1721,
where he first collaborated with Pieter-Denis Plumier (1688-1721) and Laurent
Delvaux (1696-1778) on the monument to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham,
for Westminster Abbey. Scheemakers continued in partnership with Delvaux,
carving funerary monuments as well as garden statuary. They went together to
Rome in 1728, where Scheemakers remained for two years before returning to
England in 1730 and setting up an independent workshop. He spent the rest of
his working life in England, concentrating on monuments and portrait busts.
