Bust of Isaac Newton, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Marble Bust of Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727),

Wren Library, Trinity College,

Cambridge.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Signed L.F. Roubiliac Sculpit. 1751.

I have published at great length on the busts and portraits of Newton in my parallel blog

see - http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/

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For the Roubiliac Royal Society marble bust and the Greenwich terracotta see -

http://english18thcenturyportraitsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/bust-of-isaac-newton-by-roubiliac-at.html

The two coloured images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

Oil on Canvas

76.2 x 63.5 cms

1702

Bequeathed by Dr William Hunter in 1783

Hunterian Museum Glasgow.

Sir Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

126 x 100 approx.

Grantham Museum

Acquired 1987.

Bust of Richard Bentley in the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Marble Bust of Richard Bentley (1662 - 1742). 
Fellow of the Royal Society.

Master of Trinity College (1700 - 42)

in the Wren Library,

Trinity College, Cambridge.

by Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Signed L.F. Roubilic SCt.

All images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

I am very grateful to Sandy Paul, Sub Librarian at Trinity College Library for arranging for me to receive these photographs.

see -

http://www.facebook.com/trin.coll.cam.lib

This photograph of this bust  from Trinity College, Library, Sculptured Busts', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), 

 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/plate-261

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The British Museum Low Fired Clay Bust of Richard Bentley.

 Height 65 cms.

Richard Bentley

Plaster cast

Lambeth Palace

Scan from Esdaile 

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Richard Bentley

Sir James Thornhill

Oil on canvas.

125 x 102 cms.

1710

Trinity College, Cambridge

Bequeathed by the sitter.

This would appear to be the original of all the other portraits of Bentley.

Richard Bentley

Engraving

after James Thornhill.

George Vertue

214 x 161 - Paper size.

dated 1710

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Richard Bentley

Copy of the portrait by Thornhill.

St John's College, Cambridge.

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Richard Bentley

After Thornhill

1270 x 1022 mm.

dated 1710

© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Richard Bentley

Thomas Hudson

Oil on Canvas

239 x 148 cms

Trinity College, Cambridge

Gifted from ED Garforth, 1749

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For a life of Bentley see -

Richard Bentley by Kristine Louise Haugen, pub Harvard University Press, 2011.

For a very useful overview of the life of Bentley see -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bentley

Bust of Lord Whitworth, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge.

 

 

 

The Marble Bust of Lord Whitworth,

in the Wren Library,

Trinity College, Cambridge.

Louis Francois Roubiliac

signed L.F.Roubiliac. Sculpit 1757.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 

I am very grateful to Sandy Paul, Sub Librarian at Trinity College Library for arranging for me to receive these photographs.

see -

http://www.facebook.com/trin.coll.cam.lib 

 

Bust of Sir Robert Cotton in the Wren Library Trinity College Cambridge

 

 

The Marble Bust of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571 - 1631).

Founder of the Cotton Library.

Bust in the Wren Library,

Trinity College, Cambridge.

 

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

 

Commissioned by Eliab Harvey and finished in 1757.

 

For the Cottonian Library see -

http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1980articles/pdf/article12.pdf

 

see also- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_library

 

 

 Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was educated at Westminster School and Jesus College, Cambridge. By 1588 or perhaps even earlier he had started collecting. In its final form his collection included manuscripts, maps, charters, rolls, printed books, inscriptions, stones (such as Roman monuments from the north of England), medals, coins, seals and curiosities. In 1622 he settled in Cotton House, Westminster.

 

His library was open to scholars including Francis Bacon, William Camden, Sir Walter Raleigh, Seiden and others. On the foundation of the Bodleian Library in 1601, he sent a gift of manuscripts.

 He was knighted by James I in 1603; the following year he was elected MP for Huntingdon, and was created baronet in 1611. He subsequently sat for Old Sarum in 1624, Thetford in 1625 and Castle Rising in 1628-9. In 1615-16 he was imprisoned for trying to shield the Earl of Somerset. In the 1620s he attached himself to the Parliamentary party and published political tracts. He was excluded by order of King Charles I from his library in 1629-31. Some of Cotton's papers were printed posthumously.

This text lifted from the British Museum website (see below for the terracotta bust.

 

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=75082&partId=1&searchText=%22Sir+Robert+Cotton%22&page=1

 

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Sir Robert Cotton had organised his library according to the case, shelf and position of a book within a room twenty-six feet long and six feet wide. Each of the fourteen bookcase in his library was topped by busts of classical personages, including Augustus Caesar, Caligula, Claudius, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Domitian, Faustina, Galba, Nero, Otho, Tiberius, Titus, Vespasian, Vitellius.

 

In total, he had fourteen busts, and his scheme worked by Bust-Shelf - letter-Volume number from end.

 

 Thus, the two most famous of the manuscripts from the Cotton library are "Cotton Vitellius A.xv" and "Cotton Nero A.x." In Cotton's own day, that meant "Under the bust of Vitellius, top shelf (A), and count fifteen over," for the Liber Monstrorum of the Beowulf manuscript, or "Go to the bust of Nero, top shelf, tenth book" for the manuscript containing all the works of the Pearl Poet.

 

The manuscripts are still catalogued by these call numbers in the British Library.

 

This I believe is the first mention of the use of classical busts in an English Library.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All images above copyright the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 

I am very grateful to Sandy Paul, Sub Librarian at Trinity College Library for arranging for me to receive these photographs.

see -

http://www.facebook.com/trin.coll.cam.lib 

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The Terracotta Bust of Sir Robert Cotton.

 

The British Museum.

 

Photographs by the author.

 

The terracotta was retained by Eliab Harvey, the second son of William and Mary Harvey and retained by the family until acquired by the British Museum in 1924 after previously being offered to the National Portrait Gallery who unfortunately for them were unable to take posthumous busts! It had been advertised in the Connoisseur in May 1922 at the pice of £150.

 

Roubiliac was responsible for the monument to William and Mary Harvey at the church of St Andrew, Hempstead, Essex erected in 1758.

see British Museum website -

 

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=75082&partId=1&searchText=%22Sir+Robert+Cotton%22&page=1

 

See below for the Harvey family monuments in St Andrews Church, Hempstead, Essex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Robert Cotton

Terracotta

Height 78 cms

British Museum

 

Photographs the author.

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Sir Robert Cotton

engraving by T. Cross after Cornelius Jansens

135 x 91 mm

1655

National Portrait Gallery

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Sir Robert Cotton

engraving

Robert White

300 x 188 mm

1696

National Portrait Gallery

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Sir Robert Cotton

Engraving - BM say after Cornelius Janssen formerly believed to be by Paul van Somer

from Vetusta Monumenta - pub. The Society of Antiquaries

The original with the Society of Antiquaries

George Vertue

504 x 356 mm.

1747

Nation Portrait Gallery

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Sir Robert Cotton

Portrait Attrib. Cornelius Jansens

(Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, 1593 - 1661)

56 x 43 cms

1629

Trinity College, Cambridge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Robert Cotton

attrib. Cornelius Jansens

(Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, 1593 - 1661)

1629

British Museum

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Sir Robert Cotton

Internet image from a so far unidentified source.

Engraved by George Vertue (see above).

Cornelius Janssen.

Dawson of the British Museum suggests that this portrait was the inspiration for the Roubiliac bust but I believe that he would also  have seen the other engravings illustrated above.

 

 

 

Bust of Sir Robert Cotton

Coninigton Church

 

attribMarshall

 

 

 

 

 

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The Harvey Family Monuments Hempstead, Essex.

 

see - http://stepneyrobarts.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/hempstead-essex.html

 

 

 

Monument to William Harvey

Edward Marshall.

 

 

The bust of William Harvey

Edward Harvey

 

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 Page from the Graphic magazine

 

 

Monument to William and Mary Harvey by Louis Francois Roubiliac.