Chiselden (Cheselden) a recently exhibited portrait.

 

William Cheselden by Jonathan Richardson the Elder.

Drawing with London Dealers Lowell Libson and Jonny Yarker.

Summer Exhibition 2025.

https://www.libson-yarker.com/exhibitions/summer-exhibition/william-chiselden

Graphite on vellum.

5 ¾ × 4 ⅞ inches · 146 × 124 mm

Signed with initials.

Inscribed and dated ‘Wm Chiselden Esqr Feb. 13. 1735-6’, 

also inscribed on the verso ‘Wm Chiseldon Esq. Surgn 12. Feb. 1735/6’

Jonathan Richardson snr. collector’s mark: bottom left [Lugt. 2184]

Jonathan Richardson jnr. collector’s mark bottom right [Lugt. 2170]

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https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/study-of-the-bones-of-the-hand-for-cheseldens-i-osteographia-i

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Portrait of William Cheselden.

Jonathan Richardson the Elder

The doctor, at the age of forty-seven; wearing a wig.

Pen and brown ink, over graphite.

British Museum

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0714-17

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William Cheselden.

by Jonathan Richardson.

1720's or 1730's.

140 x 118 mm.

 

This portrait is of the anatomist and eminent surgeon William Cheselden, who was one of the closest friends of the artist, Jonathan Richardson. It is one of a series of small chalk and graphite drawings of friends and acquaintances that Richardson made in his retirement. Some of these images were drawn from memory and together, they represent a sustained project in recording friendships across Richardson's whole life. Drawing was the perfect medium for this project as it allowed Richardson to produce a large number of images quickly and was closely associated with friendship and intimacy.

 

Text and image © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Cheselden.

by Jonathan Richardson.

British Museum.

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Cheselden.

Mezzotint Faber after Richardson.

1753.

Image courtesy Wellcome Collection.

The original oil painting is in the Royal College of Surgeons.

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I have posted on the portraits of Cheselden previously -

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

Cheselden from Roubiliac Esdaile.

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The Bust of Cheselden in the Royal College of Surgeons paired with the bust of Belchier.

Photograph from a tweet by Eleanor Crook Sculpt @CrookEleanor

William Cheselden (1688 - 1752).

The  Plaster bust.

It has sustained some damage to the drapery.

 Life Size. Height 61 cms.

 I suspect the turned socle is a replacement.

 I am very grateful to Bruce Simpson, Curator, Royal College of Surgeons for providing this photograph.

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Cheselden after Roubiliac 

Henry Weekes.

1871.

St Thomas Hospital London

Photographed by the author.

On 3 June 1871, Dr Leonard W. Sedgwick, wrote to the Governors of St Thomas', offering, on behalf of 'old Students of the Medical School of this Hospital', marble busts of William Cheselden and Sir Richard Mead, both by Henry Weekes RA. 

The offer was formally accepted by the Grand Committee at its meeting of 6 June 1871.

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Of tangential relevance to this post.

 

A Medallion by William Wyon c. 1827/8

in the BM.

The Profile Adapted from the Roubiliac Bust.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_M-8617