English 18th Century Portrait Sculpture

Wednesday, 10 June 2020

The Three Busts of Sir Thomas Bodley at Oxford University

The Three Busts of Sir Thomas Bodley at Oxford University. The stone bust in the Bodleian Library with the two plaster ...

Wednesday, 12 February 2020

ENOCH SEEMAN (BRITISH 1694-1745) PORTRAIT OF LADY MARGARET HERBERT (D. 1752). with bust In The Collection of Sir Wi...

Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Cheere busts at Tullynally, Ireland

The Cheere Library Busts at Tullynally Castle, Ireland. Update 10 June 2023. I now have some much better photographs of these busts and...

Monday, 5 August 2019

Simon Vierpyl - The Library Busts formerly in Charlemont House, Dublin.

The Library Busts in Charlemont House, Dublin. by Simon Vierpyl. The library is long demolished. For an excellent short illust...

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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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