Bath, Art and Architecture

Saturday, 2 November 2024

The Universal Director - Mortimers Directory.

The Universal Director - Mortimer's Directory.

or the Nobleman and Gentleman's True Guide.

to the Masters and Professors of the Liberal and Polite Arts and Sciences

Pub. 1763.

https://repository.tku.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/11150/4896/1/LAUD_211-19-01.pdf

A very useful publication giving names and rough addresses of Artists, Craftsmen and Men in the Medical Professions.

Published here as an adjunct to my researches into St Martin's Lane and its Environs in the long 18th Century.

I haven't posted the complete directory but have included the list of Artists Sculptors etc and some Medical practitioners.

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Babel of Long Acre.

Bannerman, at Pons Coffee House, in Castle Street, Leicester Fields. (Scottish Painter).

Basire, Great Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Fields.

Bermingham, Gt Queen St.

Burford on the Pavement, St Martins Lane Carver and Gilder.

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Above

Carter Statuary, Hyde - Park Corner.

Sir Henry Cheere - Old Palace Yard, Westminster.

John Cheere. Hyde - Park Corner.

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Above.

Richard Cooper, Engraver in Peter's Court on the Pavement, St Martin's Lane.

Engraved Virgin and Child after Corregio - 1763 - 64.

Son of the Scottish engraver see - https://www.kcmgalleries.com/auction-lot/correggio-virgin-and-child-etching-with-engraving_83A4E29A8E

Cooper worked le Bas studio in Paris; exhibited in London, Incorporated Society of Artists 1761, 1764, 1783 and Free Society in 1761, 1762; visited Italy, 1771-3(6?) [see Ingamells]

William Collins, Statuary, Channel Row Westminster.

Dall Scene Painter, Castle Stret, Opposite Cranbourne Alley.

Arther Devis, Great Queen Street.

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Herbert Gomond, Seal Engraver etc. Chandois St, Covent Garden.

John Gwynn, Architect. Little Court, Castle Street.

Samuel Harvey, Statuary, upper end of Masham St. Westminster.

Francis Hayman, St Martin's Lane Opposite May's Buildings

Richard Hayward, Statuary. near Dover St, Piccadilly.

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Thomas Major on the Paved Stones, St Martin's Lane.

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Ref Pars and Shipley - https://committees.westminster.gov.uk/documents/s16746/Cabinet%20Member%20Report%20William%20Shipley.pdf

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Angibaud, St Martins Lane between the Two Slaughter's Coffeee Houses.

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Peers Clark, Surgeon, May's Buildings.

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Samuel Ryley, Surgeon, Lancaster Court.

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Bayley, Apothecary St Martin's Lane.

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Bowden, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

Butcher, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

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Richards, Apothecary, St Martin's Lane.

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Bust of Sir James Rushout, The monument at Blockley, Part 7.

continued from my previous post.

The Historicising Bust of Sir James Rushout (1625 -1698).

St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.

on the Mural Monument at the East End of the North Aisle.

To my eye the least successful of the five Rushout busts. This bust is very unusual in that it is marred by a grey vein which runs through the marble and is plainly visible on both sides of the face. It is inexplicable why such a poor block of marble should have been chosen.

Alice Pitt. The Bust on the Rushout Monument Blockley, Part 6.

continued from my previous post.

Part 6.

Alice Pitt (1651 - 1698).

wife of Sir James Rushout.

St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.

on the Mural Monument at the East End of the North Aisle.

Alice Pitt, daughter of Edmund Pitt of Sudbury Court, Harrow in Middlesex.

By the 15th of May 1664 she had married Edward Palmer, son of Geoffrey Palmer and his wife, Margaret Moore. The marriage was childless and Edward died in 1667, being buried at East Carlton on the 14th of August.

Around 1670 Alice married Sir James Rushout Bart., son of fishmonger, John Rushout, and his wife, Abigail Godschalk.They were parents of five sons and four daughters.

The question remains as to who sculpted this and the other four busts on the Rushout Monument -

Rysbrack or Moore?

I am leaning towards Moore who inscribed the monument.

Lady Ann Compton - The Rushout Monument, Blockley Part 5.

Continued from my previous post.

Part 5.

Lady Ann Compton (1695 - 1766).

Wife of Sir John Rushout.

Fourth Daughter of the Earl of Compton.

St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.

on the Mural Monument at the East End of the North Aisle.

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Lady Anne Compton (d.1747), Lady Rushout.

Allan Ramsay (1713–1784).

128.3 x 101.6 cms.

Signed and dated, bottom right: A Ramsay 1743.

at Chirk Castle, Chirk, Wrexham, Wales.

National Trust.

Anne was the daughter of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, and the wife of Sir John Rushout, 4th Bt. of Northwick Park and Harrow whom she married in 1729. Their daughter Elizabeth Rushout (No. 45, 80 and 93) married Richard Myddelton of Chirk (79) in 1761.

By descent in the Myddelton family - in house catalogue, c.1900, in Drawing Room (shown on diagrammatic hang [west wall, above left door] and manuscript picture list) as “11. Lady Ann Rushout.” - until with some of the contents, in 1978, that were acquired along with Chirk Castle from Lt-Colonel Ririd Myddelton (1902–1988) by the National Land Fund and handed, on loan for 99 years, to the Secretary of State for Wales (In 1981 Chirk was transferred into the ownership of the National Trust).

Purchased by the National Trust from Mr Guy Myddelton in 2023.

Image courtesy art uk website.

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lady-anne-compton-d-1747-lady-rushout-99459

For this portrait see also -

https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1171133

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of Tangential interest -

https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/10001740

The Rushout Monument, Part 4. Sir John Rushout.

Part 4.

Continued from my previous post.

The Marble bust of Sir John Rushout (1685 - 1775).

St Peter and St Paul, Parish Church of Blockley, Gloucestershire.

on the Mural Monument at the East End of the North Aisle.

The sitter was the son of Sir James Rushout, 1st Bt., of Milnst-Maylards, Essex, and succeeded his nephew Sir James Rushout, in 1711.

He was Member of Parliament for Malmesbury (elected 1713 and again in 1715), then for Malmesbury and Evesham (elected in 1722), and continued to represent Evesham, having been unseated in Malmesbury, until he retired from parliament in 1768.

In the House of Commons he spoke frequently against the measures of Sir Robert Walpole and was one of the committee put together to investigate Walpole's conduct in 1742.

He held the lucrative office of Treasurer to the Navy in 1743 and was appointed a member of the Privy Council in the following year.

He married Lady Anne, Daughter of George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton, and was succeeded by his only son John, of Northwick Park, Worcestershire, who was created 1st Baron Northwick.