Roubiliacs Statue of Shakespeare for David Garrick

The Marble Statue of William Shakespeare

Made for David Garrick's Villa at Hampton

By Louis Francois Roubiliac.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Terracotta statuette of William Shakespeare.

The Model for David Garrick's Temple at Hampton. 

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Inscribed on top left side of the desk LF Roubiliac in.t et Fec. 1757.

Height 55.9cms.

  The Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington DC.

 

Provenance.

Not included in The Roubiliac posthumous sale.

The portrait painter Thomas Hudson sale, Lot 36, Christie's 25 -26 February 1785

Held by Langford's of the Piazza, Covent Garden.

Bought Jean Baptiste Le Brun, Paris.

Eduard Chappey, Paris.

 

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Roubiliac with the Model for Garrick's Shakespeare.

by Adrien Carpentier, active in England from 1739, died 1778.

1257 mm x 1003 mm

Signed Adrien Carpentiers p: 1762.

 

Currently at Beningborough Hall

National Portrait Gallery.

 

If the date was added later, this may be the 'half length of M^r Roubiliac' ex­hibited by Carpentiers at the Society of Artists 1761. Roubiliac died 11 January 1762 and the quality of this portrait suggests it is unlikely to be a copy. The terracotta of his statue of Shakespeare commissioned by Garrick, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, is dated 1757; the marble passed on the death of Mrs Garrick to the British Museum.

 

A version of this portrait without date or signature, was owned in 1931 by Kenneth Sanderson, and is apparently the source of the mezzotint by D. Martin engraved 1765 (see below) when in the possession of R. Alexander of Edinburgh. Both show a large pair of callipers on the stand in addition to the two small tools shown in the above portrait. A number of scholars have taken this to be a repetition. Where is it now?

 

 

 

Text lifted from  -http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/by-publication/kerslake/early-georgian-portraits-catalogue-roubiliac.php/#18

 

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Roubiliac and the Modello of Garrick's Shakespeare

after Carpentier.

Mezzotint 

David Martin

1765.

British Museum.

 

 

 

 

Terracotta Statuette

Signed on the Base.

Height 422 mm.

A slightly earlier sketch version of the Folger statuette.

The waistcoat is shown slightly differently revealing less of a paunch, The plinth of the desk has no drapery and the index finger is in a different position..

Victoria and Albert Museum.

 

Not included in the Roubiliac posthumous sale.

 

At the sale of the property of Edward Stevens (architect), held on 7 February 1776, lot 38 is described as 'A terracotta figure of Mr Roubiliac's Shakespeare'.

Noted on departmental records at the V and A, as having been purchased by Mr. A. Myers from the Henry Farrer Esq, F.S.A. sale (held at Christie's between 12 and 18 June 1866). Sold on the second day's sale, 13 June 1866, as lot 218, described as 'Shakespeare, by Corbett: a copy of the statue by Roubillac [sic]'.

The annotated catalogue is held in the National Art Library records it was purchased by Myers' for £2. Lots 221 and 222 in the same sale, described as models for a tomb in Westminster Abbey, were also purchased by Myers for 10s each.

 

The Shakespeare statuette was purchased by the Museum from Mr Myers in 1867 lot £4 4s. A terracotta model by Rysbrack for the Locke monument was also purchased from Myers at this time.

 

See - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O111038/william-shakespeare-sketch-model-roubiliac-louis-francois/

 

 

 

 

Copy of Roubiliac's Shakespeare at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham.

Undated photograph.

 

 

 

 

Life Size statue of William Shakespeare

made for the Temple at David Garrick's Villa, Hampton, Middlesex.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

1758.

Now in the British Library.

 

 

William Shakespeare

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Size Unknown.

 

This was apparently given to the anonymous owners grandfather by Warren Hastings.

This information, and the scanned photograph - 

from Louis Francois Roubiliac, Katherine A. Esdaile, Oxford, 1928.

 

This marble is very close to the first terracotta model of the Garrick Shakespeare now in the V and A.

Disappeared.

Showing the open waistcoat but an undraped plinth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Garrick's Villa and Temple

Engraving after Joseph Farington

1793

From a History of the River Thames

250 x 358mm plate mark.

British Museum.

 

 

Johann Zoffany (Johannes Zauffay).

Garrick Club.

 

 

Zoffany

Garrick Club.

 

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A current view of the interior of David Garrick's Temple at Hampton

With the reproductions of the Roubiliac Statue and the bust of Garrick.

 

 

 

A reproduction of the Bust of David Garrick.

in the Shakespeare Temple at Hampton

Derived from the bust in the Garrick Club.

 

 

 

 http://www.garrickstemple.org.uk/newsletters/newsletter%202012/index.html

 

David Garrick after Gainsborough with a bust of Shakespeare. The Busts of David Garrick

David Garrick

Some notes on The Busts of David Garrick.

David Garrick after Gainsborough with a bust of Shakespeare. 


19th Century Copy of the original destroyed in a fire at Stratford upon Avon.

After Gainsborough.

National Trust - Charlecote Park, Warwickshire.

 Oil on Canvas.

1137 x 756 mm.

The bust of Shakespeare looks to be a version of the Rysbrack terracotta now at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Showing the Palladian Bridge at Prior Park, Widcombe, Bath in the background.

Another version of this painting is in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The Original by Gainsborough was exhibited at the Society of Artists of Great Britain at Spring Gardens Charing Cross in 1766.

David Garrick with the bust of Shakespeare.

Mezzotint.

Valentine Green.

62.0 × 38.6 cm plate size.

1769.

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David Garrick.

Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Plaster

After an original lost terracotta of circa 1750.

25 in. (635 mm) high.

National Portrait Gallery.

The Marble bust of Garrick by Roubiliac was sold by Christies on 23 June 1823 at the sale of Mrs Garrick.

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Louis Francois Roubiliac modelling the bust of David Garrick.

Andreas Soldi.

Dated 1757.

Garrick Club.

Another version of this portrait is in the Dulwich picture Gallery which is mentioned by George Vertue in his notebooks in  November, 1751, ‘lately M^r Rubilliac the Statuary, his picture painted by M^r Soldi'  which instead of the bust of Garrick depicts the figure of Charity for the Montagu tomb at Warkton, Northamptonshire (below).

Lois Francois Roubiliac.

Soldi.

Dated 1751.

97 x 83 mm.

Dulwich Picture Gallery.

© Dulwich Picture Gallery, London / By permission of the Trustees.

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The Garrick Sale - 23 June 1823..

Christie's.

The Busts.

Lot 72 Bust of Pope by Roubiliac.

Lot 73 Ditto of Sterne.

Van Nost 1764, Lot 74 An Early ditto of his majesty George III.

Lot75. A bust of Garrick in terra cotta

https://archive.org/details/catalogueofsmall00chri_0/page/8

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David Garrick.

By Louis Francois Roubiliac.

Gilded Bronze Relief.

18.5 x 15.5 x  6 cms.

1758.

Presented to the Garrick Club by Peter Norton, 1833.

It has many similarities with the plaster version of Garrick by Roubiliac in the NPG.

 Many thanks to Marcus Risdell, current curator of the Garrick Club collection for providing this image.

  

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A Plaster Bust of David Garrick (1717 -79).

Life Size.

after the original attributed to John III van Nost.

Height 543 cms, socle 14.5 cms.

Presented to the Garrick Club by Theodore Hooke, 1830's.

NB Missing Buttons

It should be noted that the detail above the socle and the turned socle itself  are very close to that of the Shout bust of Shakespeare in the Garrick Club and the Athenaeum Club's 1830's Sarti plaster busts of Garrick (see below and previous post).

This suggests an attribution to the workshop of Shout or the later Sarti.

Once again many thanks to Marcus Risdell, curator of the Garrick Club collection for providing this image.

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William Thomas Lewis, Joseph Shepherd Munden, John Quick, and Tryphosa Jane Wallis, in a Scene from "Speculation", 

Depicting a Roubiliac bust of Garrick.

This bust is very similar to the plaster bust now in the NPG (photograph above).

Johann Zoffany.

1796, 

Oil on canvas, 102 x 128 cm

Digital image courtesy of The Garrick Club.

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A Plaster Bust of David Garrick (1717 -79).

 

Life Size.

after the original attributed to John III van Nost, circa 1762.

Athenaeum Club.

Supplied by Pier Angelo Sarti in 1830.

For much more info on the Sarti family see -

 http://217.204.55.158/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=2361

http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980-1/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980-s.php

For the busts in the Athenaeum Club see -

http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/athenaeum/catalogue.html

The bust is attributed to John III Van Nost (d. 1780) on the slender evidence of J.T. Smith, who records this exchange: Macklin loquitur: ‘Do I not see your bust of Garrick in every barber’s shop-window, as a block for wigs?’ ‘No’, answered Nollekens, ‘it is not my bust; it is Van Nost’s.’ (J.T. Smith, Nollekens and his Times, 1828, II, 275.

Nost was born and trained in London, but made his name in Dublin, where he was the pre-eminent sculptor of the 1750s and 1760s, known particularly for his public statues of Hanoverian monarchs. 

He appears to have been the son of John Nost II and Catherine Nost, born on 22 June 1713 and christened at St Martin-in-the-Fields two days later. An entry in the Apprenticeship Books for 17 October 1726 records that ‘Jn Son of Jn Nost of St. Geo: Hanov: Square’ was bound to Henry Scheemakers for seven years, at a cost of £40.

A bust of Mr Garrick by van Nost was exhibited at The Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce in 1762 as reported in The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 31.

Garrick owned busts of Pope (marble) and himself, mentioned in an inventory for his Hampton house where it was described as being in the Green striped  Bedroom in 1779 (National Arts Library) It is unclear whether this was a marble bust

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'Although it is less well-documented, Nost appears to have had a career in London as well as Dublin. In 1763 he was listed in Mortimer’s Universal Director ‘at Mr Clarke’s, St Martin’s-lane, opposite May’s-buildings’ (p 28; Rate-Books 1763, Cleansing Street Rates, F6007).

J T Smith later recollected that Nost had lived at 104 St Martin’s Lane, in a large house once inhabited and decorated by King George I’s sergeant painter, Sir James Thornhill.

Smith considered Nost’s most noteworthy work to be ‘the famous mask of Garrick from his face’ (55), which had been in Nathaniel Smith’s collection, but had finished up in a ‘gallery of theatrical pictures, busts &c’ owned by a Mr Mathews of Highgate Hill. According to the actor, Macklin, Nost’s bust of Garrick was ‘in every barber’s shop-window, as a block for wigs’ (Smith 1828, v.2, 228, 275)'

http://217.204.55.158/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=1978

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It occurs to me that if Macklin's quote is correct then the bust of Garrick might well have been a bareheaded. The versions that we are aware of show Garrick in his wig - hardly very useful for displaying for displaying a barber wig.

Garrick Busts and Moulds In The Roubiliac Posthumous Sale.

Ist Day Lot 1 - Plaster Bust of Garrick.

2nd Day Lot 5 - Plaster Bust of Garrick

Lot 53 - Mould - For Garrick.

Lot 74 - Garrick Bust in Terracotta.

3rd Day lot 82 - Garrick Bust in terracotta.

Day 4 Lot 54 Garrick - Mould in Plaister

Nicholas Read in an advertisement in March 1762 he advertised among others busts of Garrick and Pope "Any persons who are related to the said gentlemen, or holding them in esteem". They were to be supplied "considerably cheaper than their usual price" before the moulds were disposed of by public auction. Moulds in plaster for the bust of Pope were lots 42 and 48 on the first day of Roubiliac's sale, 12 May 1762.

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In the Catalogue of Charles Harris of the Strand of about 1785 the busts of Garrick were advertised in three different sizes. (Catalogue National Arts Library).

Large as Life 2 Guineas.

24 Inches at 16 s

Another 11 inches at 7/6.

see my previous blog entry  http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/asummary-of-researches-into-bust-of.html?view=classic

At the Garrick Club a plaster bust of David Garrick was presented by Theodore Hook in 1835 (or 1841: Ashton, no. S11) which is identical to the Athenæum bust, but it lacks the three buttons on the coat. 

 Wedgwood made reduced and simplified busts in his ‘basalt ware’.

At Joseph Nollekens’s sale of 4-5 July 1823, a ‘Sarti’ bought a number of casts and terracottas after the antique, as well as figures by Michael Rysbrack and Nollekens. Sarti took a mould of the ‘antique dog’, then owned by Noel Jennings and now in the British Museum.

In 1826 a ‘Sarti’ received a payment of 10s for unspecified work for John Flaxman RA (Flaxman Papers BL Ad MS 39791, fol 135-42). Flaxman produced an undated pencil drawing inscribed ‘Portrait of Sarti’, which shows a young man with a naked muscular torso. 

 J T Smith records that Sarti had a business in Greek Street in 1828, and that he offered for sale 52 varieties of Fiamingo’s children.

There is a plaster bust (711 x 483 mm) of Milton at Wimpole Hall, Cambridge (National Trust). One of a set of four, Pitt Dryden and Locke marked P.Sarti, Dean Street, Soho.

There is also a plaster bust of Pope (620 x 450 mm) supplied by Sarti? which is described as Newton at Wimpole Hall.

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The Wedgwood Basalt Bust of David Garrick

After the original attributed to John III van Nost.

David Garrick.

Impressed Wedgwood.

Height 16.75 ins 425mm.

Lot 886, Neal's Auctions. New Orleans, 9th February 2014.

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David Garrick.

 Wedgwood.

Neals Auctions.

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 Some Contemporary Engraved Portraits of David Garrick.

David Garrick.

After Arthur Pond (c 1705 - 58).

James McArdle.

Mezzotint.

322 x 228 mm.

Mid 18th Century.

British Museum.

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David Garrick.

After Thomas Hudson.

Anonymous Mezzotint.

150 x 113 mm.

British Museum.

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David Garrick.

After Jean Etienne Liotard.

McArdle.

Mezzotint.

329 mm x 227 mm.

© National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Replica Portrait bust of David Garrick.

Attributed to John III van Nost.

 After the original in the Garrick Club (see above).

In the Garrick Shakespeare Temple at Hampton Middlesex along with a replica of the Garrick Shakespeare currently in the British Library.

Bust of David Garrick by Nollekens

Engraving after Burney

British Museum

Busts of Shakespeare by Scheemakers and Cheere.

 

  Some notes - to be continued.

 

 William Shakespeare.

White Marble Bust.

Peter Scheemakers (1691 -1781).

About half life size.

Height 46cms approx. with socle.

.Hagley Hall. Worcestershire.

 

Photographs by the author.

This bust should be compared with other busts of Shakespeare attributed to Scheemakers, Scheemakers did not repeat it on the monument in Westminster Abbey.

 

 

 

 

 

The busts of Shakespeare, Spenser, Dryden and Milton by Peter Scheemakers in the broken pediments of the bookcases in the Library at Hagley Hall were given to Alexander Pope by Frederick, Prince of Wales; they were bequeathed by Pope, who died in 1743 to Lord Lyttelton. They were in the Library in the new house in 1747/48.

 

Some time after buying Carlton House in 1732, Prince Frederick commissioned two sets of library busts from Peter Scheemakers, one set for himself - which seems to have disappeared and the second set as a gift to Alexander Pope.

 

A bill for £107 4s was examined by William Kent as overseer and paid 22 November 1735, included the set of busts charged at £10 each (Duchy of Cornwall Household Accounts) it is unclear whether they were for the library at Carlton House or for Kents magnificent saloon in the Rotunda in the garden, built in 1735  -  (adorned with paintings and sculpture - Grub Street Journal 2 September 1735)

 

Prince Frederick, William Kent and the Garden Building at Carlton House has already touched on in my blog entry 12 August 2015, see -

 

http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/frederick-prince-of-wales-and-busts-in.html

 

A voucher in the Royal Household accounts, dated 8th November 1735, details 'for four small marble Busto's delivered to Mr Pope at £10-10 each 42-0-0' The bill was examined by William Kent on 22 November 1735 and paid without deduction. A receipt in the sculptors hand was added one week later (Duchy of Cornwall, Household Accounts of Frederick Prince of Wales, Vouchers October 1736 - June 1737, vol. VI, part 1, pp 307-08

 

Ingrid Roscoe suggest that the gift to Pope was probably prompted by George Lyttleton, the secretary to Prince Frederick, an active member of the Whig opposition, who fostered their friendship in the hope that Pope might have a democratising influence on the Prince.

 

The busts prompted a letter to Dean Swift dated 17 May 1739 9the Pr. shews me a distinction beyond any Merit or Pretence on my part & I have received a Present from him of some marble heads of Poets for my libraryand some Urnes for my garden' - (Correspondence of Alexander Pope ed. Shrwin 1956).

 

Ingrid Roscoe says - busts are ' weakly characterised frontal portraits' which I think is being rather unkind to them. I suspect that she didn't inspect them closely - compared with the portrait from the Royal collection attributed to John Cheeere (below) they exhibit a much higher degree of subtlety

 

Much of this information has been culled from Peter Scheemakers by Ingrid Roscoe, Walpole Society Journal, vol 61, 1999.

 

 I am very grateful to Viscount Cobham for allowing me the opportunity to visit Hagley and to take these photographs. 

I would also like to thank to Joyce Purnell of Hagley Hall who facilitated the visit for me, showed me around and made my visit so enjoyable.

 

Please forgive the quality of these photographs - I was very much restricted by the height of the bookcases, the availability of light and the lens on my camera. It is my intention to return to Hagley some time shortly, when the busts have been taken down and to take more photographs. In the short term these images will have to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dryden.

Peter Scheemakers.

About half life size.

Height 46cms approx. with socle.

Library, Hagley Hall, Worcestershire.

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Spenser.

Pieter Scheemakers.

About half life size.

Height 46cms approx. with socle.

Library, Hagley Hall, Worcestershire.

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 John Milton.

Peter Scheemakers.

About half life size.

Height 46cms approx. with socle.

Hagley Hall, Worcestershire.

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The  Shakespeare Memorial.

Westminster Abbey.

Peter Scheemakers

Marble.

1741.

 

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Peter Scheemakers

Hayman

 

 

 Peter Scheemakers, Pieter Scheemaeckers II (16 January 1691 – 12 September 1781),

 

by Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont (1750 - 1835).

 1776,

oil on canvas,

62.9 ,m x 48.9 cm , 

National Portrait Gallery.

Behind is a model of his Shakespeare Monument in Westminster Abbey (see above).

 

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William Powell (1735 - 69)

Actor and protégée of Garrick

With his bust of Shakespeare and his portrait of Garrick

 

engraved by Samuel Okey (fl. 1765 -80) after Robert Pyle (1761 - 66)

Mezzotint

circa 1765/70.

 

Royal Collection.

 

 

 

 

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William Shakespeare.

Marble Bust.

Signed Peter Scheemakers.

Trinity College Library, Dublin.

 

 

 

One of 14 Ancient and modern worthies which Scheemakers was contracted to supply for the Library at Trinity College Dublin. In 1743 £500 was left by Dr Claudius Gilbert, Vice Provost 'for the purchase of busts of men eminent for learning to adorn the library'

 

When the bust of Jonathan Swift was ordered from Roubiliac in 1749 which wasn't paid for from the Gilbert funds it was reported 'to be placed in the College Library among the heads of other men eminent for genius and learning'

 

 

 

 

see my post.

https://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.com/2016/12/bust-of-shakespeare-in-long-room.html

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William Shakespeare.

White Marble Bust.

a fairly loose copy after the Peter Scheemakers bust in the Library at Trinity College, Dublin.

71.0 x 48.0 x 24.0 cm (whole object).

Attributed to John Cheere?

Royal Collection.

 

They suggest an attribution to John Cheere (1709-1787), which seems reasonable, given the somewhat generalised features - it lacks the subtleties of the busts of Roubiliac, Rysbrack and Scheemakers (see above), but seems to have been the most reproduced version - probably because of the multiples emanating from the Cheere Workshop at Hyde Park Corner.

 

Given that there is no provenance prior to 1806, it could well be a later copy. 

The inscription and socle is very similar to other busts in the Royal Collection such as Alexander Pope and Lord Ligonier. It seems these were added later.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Marble bust of Shakespeare after the Trinity College Dublin version by Roubiliac.

Art Market 2015.

 

 

 

 

 

 Another version of the Royal Collection bust of William Shakespeare.

Similar to other versions.

 52 cms including socle.

 

 Currently with Historical Portraits.

Philip Mould Ltd, 18-19 Pall Mall, London, SW1Y 5LU

 

http://www.historicalportraits.com/Gallery.asp?Page=Philip-Mould

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William Shakespeare.

Fine quality Marble Bust after Scheemakers.

On a later circular marble socle

16 in. (40.7 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) high, overall

Christie's Lot 103, 2 December 2014.

They say 2nd half of the 18th Century.

Image Courtesy Christie's.

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5853960

 

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The Garrick Club Plaster Bust of William Shakespeare.

 

 

 

 

The Garrick Club Plaster Bust by Shout of William Shakespeare.

Another version of the Trinity College, Dublin Shakespeare by Roubiliac.

Almost certainly a cast either from a John Cheere bust or Moulds from the Cheere Workshop.

 

Library Photograph provided by Marcus Risdell, Curator at the Garrick Club.

Inscribed Shout on the back.

Height 64 cms, Socle 14.5 cms.

 

Presented to the Garrick Club sometime in the 1830's - it is not yet clear by whom. 

 

For the Shout (1778 - 1827) family of plaster statuary manufacturers see -

http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980-1/british-bronze-founders-and-plaster-figure-makers-1800-1980-s.php

http://217.204.55.158/henrymoore/sculptor/browserecord.php?-action=browse&-recid=2437

 

 

 This bust is very close to marble of Shakespeare in the Royal Collection (above) attributed to John Cheere.

 

For a later version see the Sarti bust of Shakespeare at the Athenaean Club.

Note particularly the base of the bust above the socle.

 

I am again very grateful to Marcus Risdell curator of the Garrick Club Collection for his help in providing images of the Garrick Club Portraits.

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The Atheneum Club Bust of William Shakespeare

Plaster Bust

Supplied by P. Sarti.

 

A plaster bust presented to the Garrick Club in 1834-36 bears the impressed signature of ‘Shout’ (Ashton, no. S.30).

 Robert Shout of Holborn (active 1778-1827) made marble monuments and plaster casts.

see above for the earlier plaster bust by Shout of Holborn in the Garrick Club.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Committee of the Athenæum Club.

Bought of P. Sarti

	£ s d
Jany 26th Figure of Diana Dressing	8. 8. 0
Ditto Venus Victorious	8. 8. 0
Feby 2 Moving repairing & painting to grecion archer	1. 4. 0 4
Bust of Sir Isac Newton	1. 10. 0
Ditto Shakespere	1. 10. 0
Ditto Milton	1. 10. 0
Ditto Lock	1. 10. 0
Ditto Dr Johnson	1. 1. 0
Ditto Dr Harvey	1. 10. 0
Ditto Lord Mansfield	1. 10. 0
Ditto Pope	1. 10. 0 [inserted]
Ditto Bacon	1. 10. 0
Moulding & casting Sir J. Reynolds	3. 3. 0
Adding drapery to ditto	1. 0. 0
Putting pedestal to the Bust of Burke	7. 0
Repairing & painting the Bust of Sir C Wren	12. 0
Painting the Names in the above Busts	19. 6
For taken down & putting twice the Apollo and altering four times the leaf	3. 10. 0
Bust of Garrick	1. 10. 0

All the Articles in this Bill

are correct. C Daly £42. 2. 6

Certified to be correct

Decimus Burton

24 April 1830

[Endorsed:] 1830

Casts Ordered for payment

Sarti Building Committee

26 April

Received 30 April of the Trustees of the

Athenæum the sum of Forty two pounds two

shillings and sixpence being the amount of

my Bill for Casts supplied to the New

Building to this time – £42. 2. 6 P. Sarti

 

The photographs and text above from

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/athenaeum/catalogue.html

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Oil on canvas

 

Copy of the Chandos Portrait

Possibly mid 18th century

Oil on canvas

57.2 x 45.1 cm.

 

Provenance -The North family, the Earls of Guilford, and by descent.

This portrait is also currently with Philip Mould Ltd.

 

http://www.historicalportraits.com/Gallery.asp?Page=Philip-Mould