Amos Meredith of Henbury, Cheshire (1688 - 1748).
with a bust of Homer.
Oil on Canvas
2010 x 1016 mm
c.1720.
at Tatton Park, Cheshire
National Trust
Continuing with the occasional post with the theme of sculpture depicted in other mediums.
For a brief look at the busts of Homer see my post.
http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/bust-of-homer-in-long-room-trinity.html
Image courtesy Art UK
The extract below from - http://winters-online.net/bishopmeredith/up/amos-meredith.htm
Sir Amos
Meredith I of Powderham-castle, in Devonshire, Bart. in consideration of his
loyalty and great sufferings, in the time of the rebellion, was made gentleman
of the privy-chamber in extraordinary to King Charles II, and commissioner of
the customs and excise, in Ireland. He was the first person, at the beginning
of the civil wars, that was employed by the gentry of the county of Devon, to
go to King Charles I, then at York, for a commission of array, and presented
his Majesty at that time with a considerable sum of his own money: he raised a
troop of horse at his own expense, and was lieutenant-colonel of a regiment of
horse till the end of the war. He built and maintained the fort at Exmouth, in
Devon, which cost him £1200 and was governor of the same : he likewise paid
£1600 more, for which he had engaged himself to the army under my lord
Berkley's command. Several thousand pounds of his own money he sent to King
Charles II, then at Jersey, for which Cromwell had resolved to put him to
death. He was many years sequestered, suffered long imprisonment, and was at
last driven out of England, after they had stripped him of all his estate, both
within-doors and without, to the value of twenty thousand pounds. He died in
Ireland, Dec. 5, 1669, and was there buried; all the rest of the family before
him, since their settlement in England, lie buried in Devonshire.
Sir William Meredith, Bart. his eldest
son and heir, married Mary, daughter and heir of Henry Robinson, of Whopload,
in the county of Lincoln, Esq; (by Elizabeth, his wife, eldest daughter of Christopher
Thursby, of Dorwoods-Hall, in Essex, Esq; by whom he had eleven children : 1.
Anna-Maria, who died the same day on which she was born and christened ; 2.
Amos, of whom presently ; 3. William-Henry, who died at about two years old ;
4. Theodora, married to William Sheyne, Esq; captain of foot, who died, leaving
a son and daughter ; 5. Mary, married to John Townshend, of Hemm, in the county
of Denbigh, Esq; who died without leaving any surviving issue ; 6. George, who
died about two months old ; 7. Frances who died young ; 8. Anne ; 9. Jane, who
died about twelve years old ; 10. Elizabeth, who died at about a quarter old ;
and, 11. Gertrude, married to William Huddlestone, of Millom-Castle, in the
county of Cumberland, Esq; by whom he had two daughters, Elizabeth, and
Isabella.
Amos Meredith II above-mentioned, died May 6, 1744,
in his father's lifetime, having married Johanna, daughter of Thomas
Cholmondely, of Valeroyal, in Cheshire, Esq; (by Anne his second wife, daughter
of Sir Walter St. John, Bart. and sister of Henry Lord viscount St. John, whose
son was the famous lord Bolinbroke) by whom the said Amos had nine children : 1
. Anna-Maria; 2. Mary, who both died in their infancy ; 3. Elizabeth, married
to William Bankes, of Wynstanly, in the county of Lancaster, Esq; by whom he
has one son, now living; 4. Martha; 5. Sir William, the present baronet ; 6.
Henrietta, married to the Hon. Frederick Vane, second son of Henry earl of
Darlington; 7. Theophilus, rector of Linton, in the county of Hereford; 8. Anna-Margaretta,
married, in 1770, to the Right Hon. Barlow Trecothick, of Addington, in the
county of Surry, lord mayor, and one of the representatives of the city of
London ; Mary, married to the Right Hon.
Lord Frederick Campbell, second son of John duke of Argyle, representative in
parliament for Glasgow, lord register of Scotland, and a privy counsellor.
The Iliad of Homer
Translated by Alexander Pope
Pub. Bernard Lintott
1715
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The following posted for my own amusement!
Aristotle with a bust of Homer
Rembrandt
1653
Oil on Canvas
Metropolitan Museum, New York.
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Perhaps the most reproduced of Classical Busts with the possible exception of the Apollo Belvedere
Wedgwood and Bentley
Fine Arts Museum Boston
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Another 19th Century Wedgwood bust of Homer with an 18th Century style socle frequently used in the plaster busts of John Cheere.
Impressed mark for Wedgwood c1780 - 1812.
Height 59cms.
Posted as much as anything to remind me that I will in the future post on the Wedgwood busts and their relationship with the work of John Cheere and the plaster shops of the second half of the 18th Century.
Posted as much as anything to remind me that I will in the future post on the Wedgwood busts and their relationship with the work of John Cheere and the plaster shops of the second half of the 18th Century.
see - http://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/
Finch and Co. an excellent source of all manner of wondrous objects.
Finch and Co. an excellent source of all manner of wondrous objects.
