Portrait of Amos Meredith of Henbury with a bust of Homer

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.

see - http://www.finch-and-co.co.uk/

Finch and Co. an excellent source of all manner of wondrous objects.