Design for Houghton by William Kent

Design for Houghton Hall

The Marble Parlour

 William Kent.

c.1730

Private Collection.

Continuing the theme of Portrait Sculpture illustrated in various mediums in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Collectors and Sculptors Studios in the 17th Century

 

 

Some Collectors Rooms and Sculptors Studios in the 17th Century.

 

Continuing the theme of showing Sculpture illustrated in paintings and engravings

17th and 18th Centuries.

Predominantly Northern European.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adriaen van Gaesbeeck (1621 - 50).

painted between 1640 and 1650

Oil on Board.

100 x 76 cms

 

Photograph Rijksmuseum

 

see - https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-113

 

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David Bailly (1584 - 1657).

Self Portrait with Vanitas Symbols

Oil on Board

65 x 97.5 cms

1651

 

Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Holland

 

 

Charles I - Bronze Bust Fanelli. Some Notes.

 

Charles I .

Unique Bronze Bust

24.2 cms tall. 

Attributed to Francesco Fanelli (1590 - 1653).

(ffrancisco the one eyed Italian).

Sculptor to the King

c. 1635

Victoria and Albert Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provenance Mrs Marjorie Ionides Bought with the assistance of the National Art Fund

Photographs Victoria and Albert Museum

 

For more on Fanelli by Dr Charles Avery see -

 

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XDsmpwKipoQC&pg=PP6&lpg=PP6&dq=Charles+I+Fanelli&source=bl&ots=5rCTpzQnos&sig=9MOz0YTCvRBJDTgKhnLkc67IQDc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiftsGK9OXVAhXnLMAKHXHQDLgQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=Charles%20I%20Fanelli&f=false

 

There is / was a bronze bust at Welbeck Abbey signed by Fanelli -

Franciscus Finellius Florentinus f. sculpt Magn. Brit Regis 1640.

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Charles I and Henrietta Maria

Quadrangle St Johns College Oxford
Presented by Archbishop Laud
Cost £400

This pair of statues have been traditionally ascribed to Fanelli but are probably by Le Sueur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Charles VI.

Holy Roman Emperor

After Johan Daniel Priessler (1666 - 1737).

 

 

 

Engraving by Johann Georg Pintz

 

 

Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017

 

Continuing the theme of portrait busts and sculpture and sculpture depicted in paintings and engravings

Portraits by William Dobson

 

 

Portraits by William Dobson (1611 - 46)

 

Continuing the theme of Sculpture in Paintings and Engravings.

 

 

 

Portrait of a man - possibly a self portrait.

Image Courtesy Philip Mould Historical Portraits.

see - http://www.historicalportraits.com/Gallery.asp?Page=Item&ItemID=584&Desc=Presumed-self-portrait-by-William-Dobson

 

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William Lawes

 

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Endymion Porter

Painted 1642 - 5.

Oil on canvas

149 x 127 cms

Tate Britain

 

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Probably Sir Thomas Aylesbury

c 1642

Oil on Canvas

125.5 x 99 cms.

 

National Portrait Gallery

 

 

 

Sir Edward Walker (1612 - 77).

Oil on Canvas 114 x 89 cms.

 

 

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

 

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Richard Nevill

c. 1643

Oil on Canvas

114 x 91.4 cms

 

National Portrait Gallery.

 

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William Dobson

by Josias English

Etching c 1646 - 49.

National Portrait Gallery

George Holmes - Keeper of the Tower of London

  

 

George Holmes

Keeper of the Tower of London.

Engraving by George Vertue

1749.

 

Included in the blog as another example in the series of posts of busts depicted in 18th Century engravings.

 

 

 

 

 

The Cartouche shows the Record Office in the Tower of London.

 

Engraved by George Vertue for the Society of Antiquaries 1749.

 

Crop below showing the bust of a bearded philosopher