Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

 

Bronze Bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope.

Fourth Earl of Chesterfield.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

 

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Purchased from dealer Simon Spero in 1959 for £90.

Photographs here taken by the author.

I suspect that the socle and the block behind the bust are replacements - the hexagonal nut on the supporting strap is a giveaway!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

see also - 

 

 

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O127094/philip-dormer-stanhope-fourth-earl-bust-roubiliac-louis-francois/

Marble Bust of Lord Chesterfield - National Portrait Gallery.

 

 

The Marble bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope,

Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).

by Louis Francois Roubiliac.

 

National Portrait Gallery.

 

This bust of Lord Chesterfield is signed and dated 1745, ad vivum (from the life). Sittings must have taken place after Chesterfield's return from his diplomatic mission to The Hague (May 1745) and before his departure to take up office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (July 1745).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This bust had belonged to George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, of Tutenkhamun fame, until 1918 when it was sold at Christie's London.

 

It is likely to have passed into the Carnarvon's possession via Lady Evelyn Stanhope, the sister and heiress of the 7th Earl of Chesterfield, who married the 4th Earl of Carnarvon in 1861.

In the Collection of Col. Sir Edward Allen Brotherton in 1959 when it was displayed at Kenwood House in an Exhibition of English Portrait Busts

Sold again at Christie's London, lot 70 3, April 1985.

Plaster Bust of Lord Chesterfield, British Museum.

 

 

 

Plaster Bust of William Dormer Stanhope

Fourth Earl Chesterfield

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

 

British Museum.

 

Purchased at the posthumous Roubiliac sale by Matthew Maty the biographer of Chesterfield - either lot 9 in second day's sale, 13 May 1762, lot 18 in third day's sale, 14 May 1762, or lot 20 in fourth day's sale, 15 May 1762.

Donated by Matthew Maty in 1762

 

The following photographs were lifted from the British Museum Website.

 

see - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?searchText=Chesterfield&ILINK|34484,|assetId=480356001&objectId=31423&partId=1

 

Unfortunately the resolution and lighting are not very good, with the possible exceptions of the black and white images no's 4 and 5 below. I will endeavour to obtain better photographs in due course.

 

 

 

For an informative and in depth study of this bust see -

Portrait Sculpture A Catalogue of the British Museum Collction, 1675 - 1975, by Aileen Dawson pub.1999, British Museum Press.

 

Height 66.3 cms

Cleaned at the Victoria and Albert Museum 8 November 1951.

 

 

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Plaster Bust of Lord Chesterfield Yale Centre for British Art.

 

 

Plaster  Bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope.

Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

 

Yale Centre for British Art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plaster.

Height 71.1 cms.

Chiselled on front of base: "[IL AJ] Y PENSE [HONL OIT] | A DEO ET REGE"

 

http://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1666372

Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield in the Louvre.

 

 

Updated 18 February 2026.

see - https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2026/02/roubiliac-and-chesterfield-at-louvre.html

The Bronze Bust of Lord Chesterfield.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

 

 Height 48.2 cms.

Circa 1745.

In the Louvre, Paris.

Purchased July 2010.

An open letter ref. the blank spaces below where I had originally posted the images of the bronze bust of Chesterfield!

Dear Louvre

For some reason the powers that be at the Museum have decided that old links to photographs of the Museums holdings no longer work.

This is probably a vain and perhaps stupid attempt to withhold visual information so that no one might profit financialy from it.

We live in a world where digital technology can easily get around this sort of selfish and benighted behaviour.

I use software called Fastone (thank you Faststone) which allows me to easily crop and save as screen shots any image I wish to keep - there is a slight loss of resolution. but this can be remedied by sharpening in Adobe Photoshop.

Please stop this ridiculous behaviour and take a leaf from the Rijksmuseum website where they take an infiniterly more enlightened view on the subject of using their images.

The image below added 18 February 2026.

Courtesy Louvre website -

https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010094099

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group of Wax Portrait Reliefs of the Stanhope Family by Isaac Gosset, 1745.

A Group of Wax Portrait Reliefs of the Stanhope Family.

by Isaac Gosset (1713 - 99).

1745.

Provenance - By descent in the Stanhope Family, now with the Trustees Chevening Estate.

At Chevening, Kent.

Lady Grizel Baillie, (1665 - 6 Dec. 1746).

98 x 80 mm.

Of Tangential interest - For The Household Book of Lady Grisell Baillie (1692 - 1733).

see

https://archive.org/details/householdbookofl00bailrich

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The Hon. George Baillie ( d. 1738).

From a portrait at Mellerstain House.

Husband of Lady Grizel Baillie.

Inscribed on the back of the frame.

11 x 78 mm.

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Grisel, Lady Murray (1693 - 1759).

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Rachel, Lady Binning (1696 - 1773).

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Grisel, Countess Stanhope (1719 - 1811).

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Thomas, 7th Earl of Haddington (1721 - 94).

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Philip, 2nd Earl Stanhope (1714 - 86).

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Hon. Rachel Hamilton (d.1797).

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Portrait of Rachel Hamilton with her brother Charles.

by Alan Ramsay.

1740.

138 x 172 cms.

at Mellerstain.

Very poor photograph lifted from

https://www.myartprints.co.uk/a/ramsay-allan/the-hon-rachel-hamilton-a.html

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Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694 - 1773).

Inscribed on the frame at the back Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, Gosset fecit. 1745.

100 x 78 mm.

This wax relief is very obviously an adaptation based on the medallion depicted below -

This might also suggest a close link between Dassier and the Gosset family. 

Medallion of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.

  by Jaques Antoine Dassier, dated on the reverse 1743.

Bronze 55 mm.

For much more on the medallions of Dassier see -

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/jacques-antoine-dassier-16-medallions.html

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Marble bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

1745.

Purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in 1985.

 

NPG says this bust of Lord Chesterfield is signed and dated 1745, ad vivum (from the life). 

Sittings must have taken place after Chesterfield's return from his diplomatic mission to The Hague (May 1745) and before his departure to take up office as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (July 1745).

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 Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield.

Alan Ramsay.

NPG, Beningborough Hall.

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