Bust of Edmund Waller by Michael Rysbrack

 

The Marble Bust of the Politician, Poet Edmund Waller

(1606 - 87). of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield

by Michael Rysbrack.

 

Originally at Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.

Location unknown believed sold at the Hall Barn Sale

 

 

 

62 cms.

Signed M Rysbrack Fecit and dated 1728

Probably based on John Riley's Portrait.

 

Almost certainly commissioned for Hall Barn by Harry Waller the poet's grandson

 

Very low res photograph.

 

For a short biography see - http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/waller-edmund-i-1606-87

 

 

 

 

David Loggon 1685

Plumbago on Vellum

 

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Engraving by George Vertue after Kneller

1727.

 

 

 

George Vertue after Kneller

1729.

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Edmund Waller by John Riley (d.1691).

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Engraving after Sir Peter Lely

 

 

 

Peter Vanderbank after Lely

 

 

 

Photograph from Country Life, 1898.

see -

 

https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000334

 

 

Photographed before the removal of the Victorian additions on the left in 1968