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The Four Pier Angelo Sarti Plaster Busts at Wimpole Hall, Cambridge of Pope, Dryden, Milton and Locke
National Trust.
c.1820 - 40.
(Part 4).
John Locke.
after the original by John Cheere - in the Wren Library, at Trinity College, Cambridge.
One of a set of four busts Pope, Milton Dryden and Locke cast and inscribed by Sarti now at Wimpole Hall, Cambridge (National Trust
Height 74 cms.
I have already written at some length and published photographs on the 18th century portrait sculpture of Locke see
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/02/some-plaster-busts-of-john-locke-by-and.html
For the same model bust of Locke but in bronze and lead bust see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-bronze-bust-of-john-locke.html
For a set of busts of Locke, Milton, Pope and Shakespeare formerly at Shardloes, Bucks see -
http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2018/02/plaster-busts-at-shardeloes-house.html
For busts of Locke and Bacon by Ed. Hodges Bailey see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/01/busts-of-john-locke-and-francis-bacon.html
For essays by John Kenworthy Brown on the Sarti busts at the Athenaeum Club
see - https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/athenaeum/britishworthies.html
For the Scheemakers busts of Locke at Trinity Library Dublin and another from the Richardson Collection see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018_02_12_archive.html
For the portrait of Locke by Kneller see -
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-portraits-of-john-locke-by-and.html
Images above courtesy Art UK
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The Bust of Locke in the Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge supplied by John Cheere
