A list of Equestrian Statues in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries designed, created or put up in England and Ireland.
1633. Charles
I - Charing X, London - Bronze - Hubert Le
Sueuer.
A Model in bronze perhaps by Le Sueur at Ickworth.
A Model in bronze perhaps by Le Sueur at Ickworth.
The Line of Kings, 14 sculptures created in the 17th century( a further three in the 18th Century) in the Tower of London. One certainly sculpted by Grinling Gibbons.
see - https://royalarmouries.org/english-civil-war-carbine/single-object/247
see - https://royalarmouries.org/english-civil-war-carbine/single-object/247
1679. -
Charles II - Bronze - Grinling Gibbons
cast by Ibach Windsor Castle - Roman Armour. (see Rupert
Harris web site)
1685 -
Charles II - Edinburgh - Lead - Grinling
Gibbons - Roman Armour. from the same mould as the Windsor version (see
Hall Conservation).
1686 -
88. - James II - Newcastle upon Tyne - Bronze - levade (standing on back legs) -
destroyed in1688 by the people of Newcastle after the Glorious Revolution -
William Larson - A Model in the National Gallery of Ireland.
1701. -
William III - Roman Armour - Bronze - College Green, Dublin. Grinling Gibbons.
1722. -
George I - Bronze - Modern Armour - John
van Nost II - Essex Bridge Dublin, Barber Institute.
1722. -
George I - Lead - Roman Armour, Hackwood Park. John van Nost II.
1723 - George I - Lead - Modern Armour - Stowe House. John van Nost II.
1723 - George I - Lead - Modern Armour - Stowe House. John van Nost II.
1728. set
up at Canons - George I - Lead - set up in Leicester Square 1747 - Modern
Armour - John van Nost II.
1733.
William III - Queens Square Bristol - Bronze - Roman Armour - Michael Rysbrack.
Plaster Model currently on display in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. There is mention of several plaster models in the 18th Century.
1734.
William III. Hull - Lead - Roman Armour - Scheemakers.
1735..
William III. Glasgow - Lead - Roman Armour - Scheemakers ?
1750,
William III. Petersfield - Lead - John Cheere - Roman Armour set up c.1750.
1757.
Frederick, Prince of Wales in Roman Armour - Lead Hartwell House, Bucks - John Cheere.
1758.
George II - Bronze - St Stephens Green, Dublin - Modern armour - John van Nost
III.
Destroyed by the IRA
A Lead Model in Dublin Castle
Destroyed by the IRA
A Lead Model in Dublin Castle
1762.
George II - Cork, Ireland - lead - appears to be in Roman Armour by John van
Nost III.
1766. George
III - Lead - Berkeley Square - Joseph Wilton - (modelled by A Beaupré) -
Collapsed under its own weight and removed 1827
1770. The
Duke of Cumberland in Modern Uniform - Lead - John Cheere.
Two lead
Models exist - Nat. Army Museum and the Royal Collection.
see - The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of
the American Memorial .By Professor Sally Webster.
1807.
William III - Bronze - St Jame's Square,
London - Roman Armour - by John Bacon Senior and Junior.
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