English 18th Century Portrait Sculpture

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Jean Baltazar Keller (1638 - 1702).

The Bronze Founder

by Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659 - 1743)

With the Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV by Girardon in the background.

The first equestrian statue cast in one piece in modern times.

David Bridgwater: "The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred. Lucian of Samosata

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