English 18th Century Portrait Sculpture

Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Francois Girardon (1628 - 1715).

Francois Girardon with the head of Julius Ceaser

Gabriel Revel

1683

Chateau de Versailles.

Joseph Vivien

1701

Louvre, Paris

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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