George III by Mrs Damer, Edinburgh and some more sculptural portraits.

 

George III.

Mrs Anne Seymour Damer.

Marble Statue.

Register House Edinburgh.

1787.

Images below courtesy the Art UK website.

George III (1738–1820) | Art UK

Lord Frederick Campbell (1729 -1816) Mrs Damer’s maternal uncle, had, as Lord Clerk Register of Scotland, been instrumental in securing the appointment of Robert and James Adam as Architects  of the new Register House in Edinburgh the first purpose built public records office in England.

Donated by Mrs Damer

it is possibly based on a similarly posed full length figure of George I which was put up in 1718 with a series of statues in the Courtyard of the Royal Exchange. MLintock states that it was never intended to be a true likeness rather an idealised representation of "the Majesty of Kingship".

Is it me? - I can find no resemblance!! I am posting some further images of busts of George III for comparison.

For a very informative article by John McLintock in the January 2010 issue of the Burlington Magazine see -

https://issuu.com/burlington/docs/1282burlingtonjan2010

Most references to this statue brush over the nepotism and amateurism 

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For Comparison.

The Society of Antiquaries Bust of George III.

John Bacon.