The Busts of Grotius in the 18th Century

 

The Busts of Hugo de Groot (Grotius).

see my post https://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2017/10/bust-of-grotius-by-rysbrack.html

A Terracotta Bust of Hugo Grotius (de Groot) (1583 - 1645).

by Michael Rysbrack (1694 - 1770).

 National Museum of Sweden.

 The bust was purchased in 1963.

https://collection.nationalmuseum.se:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=40505&viewType=detailView

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The Rijksmuseum Terracotta Bust.

height 42 cm × depth c. 16 cm × width c. 30 cm

First documented in the museum in 1906-09;{Captured on a photograph of exhibition room 150, see RMA-SSA-F-00153-1.} on loan to Museum het Prinsenhof, Delft, 1949-65

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/NG-761

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The V and A Wedgwood Bust of Grotius.

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Grotius.

Wedgwood.

50.7 cm.

c. 1775 - 80.

This version sold Sotheby's Lot 97 23 October 2019.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/wedgwood-and-beyond-english-ceramics-from-the-starr-collection/a-wedgwood-and-bentley-very-large-black-basalt-3

The reverse of the shoulder with impressed uppercase GROTIUS, over letter H., the underside of socle with uppercase WEDGWOOD & BENTLEY mark.

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The Potomack /  Jeffrey Millkins  Collection Wedgwood Bust of Grotius.

Lot 2025 30 Sept 2021.

Height 20" approx.

https://www.potomackcompany.com/auction-lot/wedgwood-bentley-black-basalt-bust-of-the-dutch_CA645B0AC7

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Gallagher, Ars Ceramica, 2019, no. 31, p. 18, fig. 9

 Gallagher, 2019, writes that in September 1779, an order of six large busts, including a Grotius, was fulfilled for the Dutch market and which came through Wedgwood's Amsterdam agent Lambertus van Veldhuysen. A bust of Grotius is also included in Wedgwood and Bentley's 1779 trade catalogue. The source for the bust is likely the 1631 oil painting by Michiel Jansz. Van Mierevelt (1576-1641). A second bust of Grotius of this large size from the Bernheim Collection was sold at Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, February 26, 1972, lot 116.

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From the Milkins Collection

Portrait Medallion of Grotius.

Height 3.25" 

Lot 2026

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The Houbraken Engraving.

Jacobus Houbraken (1698 - 1780)

National Galleries of Scotland

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/31190

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The Houbraken Drawing 

NPG.

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Huigh De Groot (Hugo Grotius) (1583-1645)

 by Willem Jacobsz Delff, after Michiel Jansz. van Miereveldt.

Line engraving, mid 17th century.

10 3/8 in. x 6 3/4 in. (265 mm x 172 mm) paper size.

Given by the daughter of compiler William Fleming MD, Mary Elizabeth Stopford (née Fleming), 1931.

NPG D26250