The Busts of Jonathan Swift at the RDS. Part I - The Patrick Cunningham Bust

The Plaster Busts of Jonathan Swift.

at the Royal Dublin Society.

Part 1.

Patrick Cunningham.

Drawing said to be of Swift by Isaac Whood (1688 - 1752).

Graphite on Paper.

37.2 x 26.7

Purchased 1907.

National Gallery of Ireland.

I suspect this isn't Swift given other depictions which show him with eyebrows of Dennis Healey proportions.

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Marble in the National Museum of Ireland

Jonathan Swift.

Marble Bust.

by Patrick Cunningham.

22cms tall.

Purchased in 1901 in London from a Miss AL Cousins.

National Gallery of Ireland.

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Wedgwood and Bentley bust of Swift.

c. 1780.

Unknown sculptor but based on the Cunningham Bust.

Height 19".

Sold Skinner Auctioneers of Boston, USA, Lot 40. - 12 January 2013.

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Monuments in the Church at Edenham, Part 4.

 

 

The Remarkable Group of Funerary Monuments.

in St Michaels Church, Edenham Lincolnshire.

(Part 4).

 

Monument to Robert Bertie.

Erected in 1728

Unusually it signed by both Henry (Hendrik) Scheemakers (1700 - 48) (brother of Peter Scheemakers) and Henry Cheere.

Henry Scheemakers was born in Antwerp, he was working in London by 1726 with  premises in St Margaret's Westminster adjacent to his brother. 

In 1727 John van  Nost II apprenticed his son John van Nost III to him at a fee of £40. 

In July 1733 he had a sale of his possessions before departing forever to France where he worked on the Chateaus of Dampierre and St Cloud.

For a useful biog see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Scheemakers

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Robert Bertie died in 1723, aged 63, son of Robert, Earl of Lindsay and wife Elizabeth née Wharton. 

His first wife was Mary Wynne from Carnarvon, by whom he had 2 sons, Robert and Peregrine, and 3 daughters Elizabeth, Elinora and Mary who died young. his second wife, Albina Farrington gave him 5 sons and one daughter, Norris died as an infant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Monuments in the Church at Edenham, (Part 3).

 

 

The Remarkable Group of Monuments in Saint Michael's Church

Edenham, Lincolnshire.

(Part 3).

Peregrine Bertie, Duke of Ancaster.

Probably sculpted by the Workshop of Henry Cheere.

 

 

 

Peregrine Bertie. Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven,

 Lord Great Chamberlain of England, Died aged 55, in 1741.

 

Shown in Roman dress leaning on an urn with a medallion of Duchess Jane,

née Brownlow.

The pose is adapted from that used on the Craggs monument by Guelfi of c 1722 in Westminster Abbey.

They had 3 sons and 4 daughters: Peregrine, Albermarle, Brownlow, Mary, Albina, Jane and Carolina.

 

 

Jane Duchess of Ancaster.

 

Photographs by the Author - 5 May 2015.

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Monuments in the Church at Edenham 2

The Remarkable Group of Monuments in the St Michael's Church Edenham, Lincolnshire,

(Part 2).

Monument to the third and Fourth Dukes of Ancaster.

Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster (1714-1778) married Elizabeth Blundell, and secondly Mary Panton (d.1793). Shown seated holding a cameo of the Duchess. Standing in roman dress is the 4th Duke, Robert Bertie (1756-1779).He never married, and died of Scarlet Fever.
Monument by Charles Harris of London.

For Charles Harris and his workshop on the Strand see -

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/charles-harris-catalogue.html

Monuments in the Church at Edenham.1.

 

The Remarkable Group of Monuments in Saint Michael's Church, Edenham, Lincolnshire. 

(Part 1).

The Bertie Family Monument.
 

 Erected in 1738 and showing seven members of the family.

Robert Bertie Lord Willoughby became Earl of Lindsay in 1666, dying in 1701.

He first married Mary Massingberd and had a daughter Arabella.

He then married Elizabeth Wharton, and had Robert (1660–1723), Peregrine (c.1663–1711), Phillip, Albermarle and Norreys.

Robert lastly married Elizabeth Pope, and they had Charles and Elizabeth who never married.

Albermarle Bertie had the monument erected in 1738.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert, Lord Willoughby of Eresby.

Earl of Lindsey.

 

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The Honourable Norrys Bertie.

 

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The Honourable Peregrine Bertie.

 

 

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Elizabeth Lady Lindsey.

 

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Arrabella Lady Rivers (d.1736).

 

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The Honourable Philip Bertie.

 

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The Honourable Albermarle Bertie.

 

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Busts of Newton and Pope in Wiltshires Assembly Rooms Bath - Redux.

 

The Pair of Busts of Newton and Pope

Previously in Wiltshire's Assembly Rooms,

Terrace Walk

Bath.

 

 It has long been my belief that the two busts split up in 1968 and recently reunited - and now in the possession of Lord Rothschild are the pair of busts first noted in the Gentleman's Magazine of February 1741 Vol 11 p. 102 as in Wiltshire's Assembly Rooms in Bath.

 

'On Mr Nash's present of his own picture at full length fixt between the bustos of Mr Pope and Sir Is Newton in the long room at Bath'

 

 

 

This reference and the epigram believed at one time to be by Lord Chesterfield are the only references to busts of Newton and Pope together. 

I have recently rediscovered the poem below  in my files.

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A Newspaper clipping from the London Chronicle 12 March 1761.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oliver Goldsmiths Life of Beau Nash published in 1762 repeats the epigram -

 

This picture, plac’d the busts between
  Gives Satire all its strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen
  While Folly glares at length.

 

 previously attributed to Lord Chesterfield but almost certainly by Jane Brereton d. 1740 writing under the nom de plume of Melissa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This poem and Goldsmiths reference would suggest that the pair of busts were still at Wiltshire's rooms in the early 1760's.

 

Walter Wiltshire died in 1763, this I would suggest, is the most likely time when the busts were removed from the Assembly Rooms - although these Lower Rooms went into a long decline after the opening of the Upper Rooms and the building was taken over in 1782 by toyman William Glover.

 

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I have published previously on this at some length about the pair busts of Pope and Roubiliac by Roubiliac sold at the Hinton House sales of the propertie of George 8th Earl Poulett (d.1973) by Sotheby's.

 

Hinton House, Hinton St George Somerset the contents were sold in three sales - 1st November and 8th November 1968 and 28th March 1969.

 

see my previous blog entries

 

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/11.html

 

 

 

  http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/the-roubiliac-busts-of-isaac-newton.html

 

 

Somerset Archive and Record Service, DD/PT Box 9: an inventory of the effects at the residence of the Late Earl Poulett, Hinton St George, Somersetshire, May 15th 1819.

 

I have not yet been able to check this document.

 

 

Drawing of Wiltshire's Assembly Rooms by James Vertue c,. 1741

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the New Foundling Hospital For Wit, 1768.

Statues in London from Stow's Survey of 1735

 

The Statues of London

From

Stow's Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster Southwark....

Edited by John Mottley

Published 1735.