Thomas Banks (1735 - 1805)
Sculptor.
A list of The Portrait Busts.
The numbers on the left refer to the list on the Online Version of -
A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851.
see -
http://liberty.henry-moore.org/henrymoore/works/recordlist.php?-skip=75&-max=25&-action=find&sculptor_id=119
A surprising number have disappeared.
A surprising number have disappeared.
This list is not definitive - does not include the self portrait bust illustrated in the September 1791 issue of the European Magazine.
55. - 1777. - Maria
Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester. Untraced.
56. - 1778. - Thomas
Jones of Penkerrig, Radnor. Untraced.
57. - 1778. - Unidentified
lady. Untraced.
58. - 1780. - Benjamin
West RA. Burlington
House, London
59. - 1781. - Robert
Home, the artist. Untraced.
60.- 1783. - Head
of a Majestic Beauty, composed on Mr [Alexander] Cozens principles’. Untraced.
61. - 1784. - Maria
Cosway. Untraced.
62. - 1785. - Sir
Joseph Bankes. Untraced.
63. - 1785. - Sir
Joshua Reynolds. Untraced.
64.- †1787. - Dr
John Egerton, Bishop of Durham. Untraced
65. - †1788. - Johann
Samuel Schroeter. Untraced
66. - c. 1789 Mrs
John Taylor Bust. Untraced
67. - 1790 Warren
Hastings (1st version). Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, London.
68. - c1790 - Warren
Hastings (2nd version, but draped all’antica). Untraced
69. - 1790 -1791 - Dr
Anthony Addington. Private
coll, USA.
70. - 1792 - ‘Master
Cockerell in the character of Harpocrates’. Untraced.
71. - 1792 - Mrs
Jane Johnes and Mariamne Johnes (two busts)(Jane
Johnes only) Dolancothy, Llandilo, South Wales.
72. - 1794 - Unidentified
lady. Untraced.
73. - 1796. - Anna
Maria, Lady Lawley. Untraced.
74. - 1796. - Charles,
1st Marquess Cornwallis. Coll
Major J Warde.
75. - 1796.. - Melpomene
(Mrs Siddons). Untraced.
76. - 1796. - Sir
Robert Lawley. Untraced.
76. - 1796. - Sir
Robert Lawley. Untraced.
77. - 1798. - Thomas
Johnes. Untraced.
78. - pre-1799 - Felix
Vaughan (†1799). Untraced.
79. - pre-1800. - Dr
John Warner (†1800). Untraced.
80. - 1800. - John
Horne Tooke. Untraced
81. - 1803. - Miss
Rose, daughter of George Rose. Untraced.
82. - 1800. - Oliver
Cromwell Bust. Private coll,
London.
83. - c.1804. - George
Soane. Sir John Soane Museum. SC 69.
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The Undated Busts.
84. - No date. - General
Martin (and another ‘when young’), Mrs Campbell, unidentified sitters, and Mr
or Mrs ‘Palmer’ . Untraced.
85. - No date. - Head of Agrippina. Untraced. .
86. - No date. - Prince
of Wales, Governor Hollwell, Mary Wollstonecroft, [Thomas] Holcroft, Napoleon
Bonaparte. Untraced
87. no date. - Warren
Hastings (3rd version, with drapery diagonal across the chest). Private coll, London.
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Thomas Muir Junior (1765 - 1798).
Transported for sedition.
Engraving of the (missing) Bust by Thomas Banks.
T Holloway (1748 - 1827).
10.8 x 8.89 cms.
1795.
Muir
spent his life fighting for the rights of the poor and the oppressed.
Encouraged by the Revolution in France, he pressed for parliamentary reform in
Britain.
In 1793 he was charged with sedition and sentenced to fourteen years
exile in Botany Bay, Australia. Three years later Muir arranged his escape to
America but he was arrested by the Spanish and badly injured when the ship he
was on was attacked by the British. Assumed to be dead by the authorities, Muir
reached Paris where he was treated as a great hero and martyr.
In this
engraving, beneath the image, there is a verse adapted from a poem by James
Thomson. It begins: “Should fate command me to the farthest verge. Of the green
earth, to distant barbarous climes…”
Text and image courtesy Nation Galleries of Scotland.
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/35842/thomas-muir-junior-huntershill-1765-1798-transported-sedition
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