Lot 70, on the fourth day (15 May 1762) of Roubiliac’s posthumous sale was a model (untraced) of "A gentleman surprizing a lady on a couch". It was listed in the catalogue under the heading ‘DESIGNS for Monuments, &c. in Terra Cotta, &c.’
There is a single copy of the Sale Catalogue in the Finberg Collection British Museum.
There is unfortunately no auctioneer’s record of the purchaser of this lot.
see - The article Roubiliac's missing model of Tarquin and Lucretia : Its possible purchase by Johan Zoffany in 1762 or later by David Wilson, Sculpture Journal, June 2009, Liverpool University Press.
David Wilson does not appear to have been aware of the Thomas Major Sale and the bronze group of Tarquin and Lucretia in 1800.
This bronze must still exist -
The article mentions a reference to Robert Dossie's Memoirs of Agriculture and other Oeconomical Arts, Vol II of 1782, a drawing of Roubiliac's by Philip Wickstead a pupil of Zoffany, which won a third share of a premium at the 1765 from the Royal Society of Arts - for a drawing of human figures from models & by draughtsmen under the age of twenty for his drawing of Tarquin and Lucret. aft. Roubil.
It seems from a note in the minutes of the Society that this drawing was made in the studio of Zoffany and David Wilson speculates that Zoffany bought it at the Roubiliac sale.
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The catalogue for a sale by Christies on 29 March 1805 'of ... Vases, Marbles, etc collected by a Man of Fashion during a recent visit to Rome and Naples', also included 'original models in Terra Cotta, by the celebrated Roubiliac, &c, &c.'
Lot 118 was described as An original model of the bust of Handel, by Roubiliac, in terra cotta', and it was sold for three Guineas (this bust is probably the Grimsthorpe Castle terracotta bust of Handel).
The preceding lot, 117, was described as 'Tarquin and Lucretia,
a singularly fine model in terra cotta, by the celebrated Roubiliac,
undoubtedly, with a glass shade'.
Lot 119 was described as an original model of the bust of Alexander Pope by Roubiliac.
This is the bust now in the Barber Institute bought by the poet Samuel Rogers of St James Place.
see my post - http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.com/2016/03/cheselden-and-belchier-royal-college-of.html
The annotations to the right of the lot descriptions, where
the auctioneer has recorded the result of the auction, are incomplete, and do
not disclose the name of the purchaser of the bust of Handel, but they disclose
that lot 119 (the terracotta bust of Pope) was acquired by one 'Rogers' for
five Guineas. (David Wilson).
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After Luca Giordano (Italian, Naples 1634–1705, Naples).
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Tarquin and Lucretia.
Engraving.
after Giovane Palme (1548 - 1628).
c.1724 - 33.
Bernard Picart (1643 - 1733).
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1109-756
Image courtesy British Museum.
