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Article
Roubiliac and Sprimont: a friendship revisited
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 601–611
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Murdoch, Tessa (Murdoch, Tessa)
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1. Louis-François Roubiliac, attributed to François Xavier Vispré. c.1760. Pastel on paper mounted on canvas, 62.2 by 54.6 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven CT).
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10. Head of a laughing child, after a model attributed to Louis-François Roubiliac. 1746–49. Chelsea porcelain, 19.7 by 16.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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11. Persia and Macedonia (Greece) from the Temple of the Four Monarchies clock, by Louis-François Roubiliac. c.1738. Bronze, height 30 cm. each. Wet collodion negative by John Wesley Livingston. 1875. (Royal Collection Trust; © 2023 His Majesty King Charles III).
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12. Chaldea (Assyria) and Rome from the Temple of the Four Monarchies clock, by Louis-François Roubiliac. c.1738. Bronze, height 30 cm. each. Wet collodion negative by John Wesley Livingston. 1875. (Royal Collection Trust; © 2023 His Majesty King Charles III).
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13. Floor-standing clock, by Charles Clay, with paintings by Jacopo Amigoni and sculptures by Louis-François Roubiliac and John Michael Rysbrack. 1740–43. Wood with gilded metal, silver and paint, height 85 cm. (Royal Collection Trust / © HM King Charles III 2023).
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14. Britannia, after a model here attributed to Louis-François Roubiliac. c.1746–48. Chelsea porcelain, 25.7 by 16.2 cm. (Errol Manners, London).
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2. Nicholas Sprimont with his wife, Ann, and sister-in-law Susannah Protin. 1759–62. Oil on canvas, 76.5 by 53.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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3. Retrieving hound, after a model attributed to Nicholas Sprimont. 1749. Chelsea porcelain, 19.8 by 19.8 by 8.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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4. Paul Crespin. c.1726. Oil on canvas, 114 by 90 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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5. Centrepiece. English, by Paul Crespin possibly in association with Nicholas Sprimont. 1740. Silver, 36 by 54.5 cm. (Toledo Museum of Art).
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6. Sauceboats with figures of Venus and Adonis, by Nicholas Sprimont. 1743–45. Gilded silver, 22.7 by 23.2 by 13 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © 2023 His Majesty King Charles III).
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7. Design for a soup tureen for Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, by Nicholas Sprimont. c.1744. Pen and black ink with brown ink wash on paper, 26 by 43.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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8. Girl in a swing, Charles Gouyn Factory, St James’s, London. 1749–59. Porcelain, 15.9 by 16.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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9. Trump, William Hogarth’s pug, after a model by Louis-François Roubiliac. 1747–50. Chelsea porcelain, 13.2 by 26.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Article
Socles and settings: Roubiliac’s busts of George II and Viscount Ligonier
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 607-610
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Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
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Marsden, Jonathan (Marsden, Jonathan)
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10. The Long Room, 12 North Audley Street, London. (Photograph by A.E. Henson, 1925; Country Life).
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11. Chimneypiece in the Long Room, 12 North Audley Street, London. (Photograph by A.E. Henson, 1925; Country Life).
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5. John Ligonier, Viscount Ligonier, by Louis-François Roubiliac. c.1760–63, with socle added in 1830. Marble, height including socle 70.5 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021).
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6. George II, by Louis-François Roubiliac. c.1760–63, with socle added in 1830. Marble, height including socle 78.1 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021).
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7. The gallery of the staircase at Carlton House, London, by Charles Wild. c.1819. Watercolour and body colour on paper, 19.5 by 25.4 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021).
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8. John Ligonier, Viscount Ligonier, by Joseph Nollekens, after Louis-François Roubiliac. c.1762? Pencil on paper mounted on card, 20 by 16.1 cm. (Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston).
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9. The bust shown in Fig.6, photographed with its original socle. Marble, socle 10 by 53 by 32 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2021).
Book Review
The Marble Index: Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-century Britain, by Malcolm Baker
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 908
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Murdoch, Tessa (Murdoch, Tessa)
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45. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, by Louis-François Roubiliac. 1745 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Exhibition Review
Pope, Roubiliac and the portrait bust
11/2014 | 1340 | 156
Pages: 767-768
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Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd (Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd; Gowan, Todd Longstaffe-)
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54. Bust of Alexander Pope, by Louis-François Roubiliac (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham; exh. Waddesdon Manor, Bucks.)
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55. William K. Wimsatt with six portrait busts of Alexander Pope, by an unknown photographer (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Article
Henrietta Finch, sculptor?
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 299-302
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Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
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10. Detail of Fig.9
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6. Detail of Fig.8 showing the inscription
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7. Elizabeth Finch, by Louis François Roubiliac (English Heritage, Kenwood House, London)
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8. Elizabeth Finch, attributed to Henrietta Finch, after Louis François Roubiliac (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
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9. The Finch family, by Charles Philips (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Article
Peter Mathias Van Gelder’s monument to Mary, 3rd Duchess of Montagu, in St Edmund’s, Warkton, Northamptonshire
04/2013 | 1321 | 155
Pages: 220-229
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Lindley, Phillip (Lindley, Phillip)
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1. Monument to Mary, 3rd Duchess of Montagu, by Peter Mathias Van Gelder. 1777-82. (St Edmund's, Warkton, Northamptonshire).
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10. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing the funerary urn.
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11. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing marble repair to the rear of the figure of the widow.
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12. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing the inscription.
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13. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing the addition to the rear of the main sculptural group and the carved inscription 'I. Bentjes' and date '10 November 1781'.
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15. Monument to Catherine Jekyll at St Andrew's, Arthingworth, by Peter Mathias Van Gelder. c.1775. Inscribed 'Van Gelder fecit'.
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16. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.2 showing the section of drapery added by Peter Mathias Van Gelder to Roubiliac's statue of the 2nd Duchess of Montagu.
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17. Section of marble representing the garter sash from the monument illustrated in Fig.2.
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2. Monument to John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, by Louis François Roubiliac. 1749-55. (St Edmund's, Warkton, Northamptonshire).
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3. Monument to Mary, 2nd Duchess of Montagu, by Louis François Roubiliac. 1753-55. (St Edmund's, Warkton, Northamptonshire).
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4. Monument to Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch, by Thomas Campbell. 1830-43. (St Edmund's, Warkton, Northamptonshire).
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5. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing relief of mourning woman with an easel and palette, representing Painting.
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6. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing the weeping boy at the feet of the dying Duchess.
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7. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing the figure representing the widow.
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8. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing the angel in the main sculptural group.
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9. Detail of the monument illustrated in Fig.1 showing the dying Duchess.
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14. Marble altar steps, chancel, St Edmund's, Warkton, Northamptonshire.
Book Review
Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument. Sculpture as Theatre
12/1997 | 1137 | 139
Pages: 879-881
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Potts, Alex (Potts, Alex)
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Roubiliac and the Eighteenth-Century Monument. Sculpture as Theatre | author: Baker, Malcolm , author: Bindman, David
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Advertisements November 1997 (front)
11/1997 | 1136 | 139
Pages: i-xxiv
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[ Alex Wengraf ltd, The Old Knoll, Eliot Hill, London ] Jaques-Louis David, (1748-1825) Portrait of a young woman.
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[ Christie's 502 Park Avenue, New York ] Property from the Estate of Gabrielle Oppenheim - Errera. Claude Monet (1840-1926). Waterloo Bridge, soleil voilé. Signed and Dated Bottom Left 'Claude Monet 1903'. Oil on Canvas. $25frac{5}{8}times 39frac{5}{8}$ in. (65.1 × 100.7 cm.). Painted in London. 1903. Estimate: $4,000,000-6,000,000
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[ Christie's, 8 King Square, St. James, London ] The Property of the Estate of the 2nd Viscount Camrose, Sold by Order of the Executors. Luca Carlevarijs (1663-1730). The Molo and the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, looking East, with gentlemen, Merchants, Stevedores, Tradesmen and Townsfolk; And The Molo and the Piazzetta, Venice, Looking West, with Gentlemen, Tradesmen and Townsfolk. The Second Signed with Initials 'L. C.' Oil on Canvas, $29frac{7}{8}times 39frac{3}{4}$ in. (76 × 101 cm.). A Pair (2). The Second Illustrated. Estimate: £1,000,000-1,500,000 (For the Pair)
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[ Christie's, 8 King Street, St. James, London ] ]Sold on Behalf of the St Mary and St Nicholas Preservation Trust. A Carved Marble Bust of Henry Herbert. 9th Earl of Pembroke. By Louis François Roubiliac (1702-1762). $24frac{5}{8} text{in.}$ (62.5 cm.) High, the Bust. 32¼ in. (82 cm.) High, Overall. Estimate: £100,000-150,000
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[ Colnaghi, 15 Old Bond Street, London ] Gaetano Gandolfi. 1734 - Bologna - 1802. Finished Study for an Altarpiece with Sts James of the March, John of God and Margaret of Cortona. Oil on Canvas: 50.2 × 31.8 cms ($19frac{3}{4}$ × 12½ ins)
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[ cover ] Suzanne Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, by Jacques-Louis David. 1804. 60.5 by 49.5 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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[ Dover Street Gallery, 13 Dover Street, London ] Rose Adelaide Ducreux. Portrait of a Lady with Her Daughter in a White Dress and Bonnet, Holding a Posy of Flowers. Oil on Canvas. 195.6 × 130.2 cms.
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[ Galerie Hans, Jungfernstieg 34, Hamburg ] Claude Gellée, Called Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). Woodéd Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Oil on Canvas, 72,7 × 98,1 cm.
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[ Galerie Patrice Bellanger, 198, boulevard Saint - Germain, Paris ] The Sleeping Faun. Original Plaster, 1885.
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[ Hill-Stone, New York ] Frans Crabbe van Espleghem. Malines c. 1480-1552. Christ as the Man of Sorrows. Engraving and Etching; c. 1522-1525. Hollstein 34. Exceedingly Rare; The Second Known Impression.
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[ Johnny Van Haeften, 13 Duke Street, St. James, London ] Jan Victoors (Amsterdam 1620 - 1676 The Indies). On Canvas. 39 × 49½ ins. (99 × 125 cms.)
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[ Olympia London, The National Hall, Olympia Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith Road, London ] Col. Alastair Macdonell of Glengarry by Sir Henry Raeburn (c. 1812), Oil on Canvas, National Gallery of Scotland
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[ Phillips, 101 New Bond Street, London ] Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682). "St Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child", Pen, Brown Ink and Brown Wash over Black Chalk, 163mm × 136mm. Estimate: £7,000-10,000
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[ Phillips, 101 New Bond Street, London ] Claes Molenaer (1630-1676), A Winter Landscape, Signed and Dated 1660, Oil on Canvas, 64.2cm × 88.8cm. Estimate: £50,000-£80,000
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[ R. S. Johnson Fine Art, 645 North Michigan Ave., Chicago ] Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). Sewing in the Conservatory, circa 1895. Pastel, 28 × 20 in., Signed Lower Left
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[ Richard L. Feigen & Company, 49 East 68th Street, New York ] Max Beckmann, Romance, 1948. Ink over Pencil. 37.3 by 32.3 cm. Inscribed and Dated: "A. 12..2.48"/"Romance"
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[ Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street, London ] George Gower c. 1540-1596. The Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. Oil on Panel. 114.5 by 85.5 cm.; 45 by 33½ in. Estimate: £300,000-500,000
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[ Stoppenbach & Delestre 25 Cork Street, London ] Francois Bonvin (1817-1887). Nature morte au lièvre. Oil on Canvas, 47½ × 36½ ins. (121 × 92.7 cms). Signed and Dated Lower Right: 'F Bonvin 1867'
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[ The Bridgeman Art Library, 17-19 Garway Road, London / 65 East 93rd Street, New York ] Portrait of Georgiana, Lady Greville, c. 1771-72 by George Romney (1734-1802), Courtauld Gallery, London
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[ The Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London ] Flower-Piece, by Hendrick Reekers, Signed and Dated 1840. Oil on Panel, 42.5 × 34.5 cm.
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[ The Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London ] Madonna and Child, by Ludovico Brea (c. 1450-1522/3), Tempera on Panel, with Integral Frame, 51 × 36 cm.
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[ [ The Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London ] Blue, White and Gold, by Arthur Pond Garratt, Signed and Dated 1916. Oil on Canvas, 127 × 102 cm
Non-western art unattributed:
[ British Museum, Great Russell Street, London ] Zulu Bead Necklace and Panel, South Africa, 1960s.
Non-western art unattributed:
[ Grace WuBruce, 701 Universal Trade Centre, 3 Arbuthnot Road, Hong Kong ] Huanghuali Sloping-Stile Wood-Hinged Cabinet, Chinese, Late 16th to Early 17th Century
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[ Neumeister, Barer Str. 37, Munich ] An Early Gothic Swabian (Southern Germany) Lime-Wood Sculpture of the Virgin and Child, Circa 1370. H. 70 cm.
Western art unattributed:
[ The Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London ] A Group of Jacobite Glasses, c. 1745-80
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[ The Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London ] Cranberry Overlay Glass Decanters. English 1850 70
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[ The Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London ] The Deacon Convener's Chair. Oak, Mid Sixteenth-Century Incorporating Earlier Elements
Western art unattributed:
[ The Fine Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London ] The Master of Hospital's Chair, Oak, Seventeenth-Century Incorporating Earlier Elements.
Article
The Making of Portrait Busts in the Mid-Eighteenth Century: Roubiliac, Scheemakers and Trinity College, Dublin
12/1995 | 1113 | 137
Pages: 821-831
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Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
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36. View of the Long Room, Trinity College, Dublin, by James Malton. 1793. Engraving, 27 by 37.5 cm. From: J. Malton: A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin, Dublin [1794]. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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37. Homer, by Peter Scheemakers. Marble, 78 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
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38. Plato, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 78 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
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39. Isaac Newton, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 80 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
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40. Alexander Pope, by L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 63 cm. High (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
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41. Isaac Newton, by L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 55.9 cm. High (Royal Society).
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42. Aristotle, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 78 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
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43. Back of John Ray, by L. F. Roubiliac. Terracotta. (British Museum, London).
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44. Andrew Fountaine, by L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 78 cm. High (Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire).
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45. Back of Queen Caroline, by Michael Rysbrack. Terracotta, 66 cm. High (Rijksmuscum, Amsterdam).
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46. Side View of the Dublin Homer (Fig. 37), Showing the Support at the Back. [Homer, by Peter Scheemakers. Marble, 78 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).]
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47. Side View of Socrates, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble. (Trinity College, Dublin).
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48. Back of Roubiliac's Yale Pope (Fig. 40). [Alexander Pope, by L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 63 cm. High (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).]
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49. Back of Alexander Pope, by Michael Rysbrack. Marble, 49 cm. High (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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50. Back of Francis Smith, by Michael Rysbrack. Marble, 75.5 cm. High (Private Collection).
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51. Back of Unknown Man, by Joseph Wilton. Marble, 78.4 cm. High (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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52. Lord Chief Justice Raymond, Here Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 60 cm. High (Bust Only) (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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53. Back of Fig. 52. [ Lord Chief Justice Raymond, Here Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 60 cm. High (Bust Only) (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).]
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54. Back of William Stanhope, by Joseph Nollekens. Marble, 58 cm. High (Private Collection).
Article
Roubiliac's Argyll Monument and the Interpretation of Eighteenth-Century Sculptors' Designs
12/1992 | 1077 | 134
Pages: 785-797
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Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
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20. Monument to John, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, by Louis François Roubiliac. 1749. (Westminster Abbey, London).
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21. Frontispiece to the Universal Magazine, 1749.
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22. Drawing for the Monument to the 2nd Duke of Argyll, by John Michael Rysbrack. c.1745. Pencil, Pen and Ink, Wash and Water-Colour on Paper, 37 by 27 cm. (National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh).
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23. Drawing for the Monument to the 2nd Duke of Argyll, after Hubert Gravelot and Louis François Roubiliac. 1745. Pencil, Pen and Ink on Paper, 47 by 33 cm. (Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch).
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24. Drawing for the Monument to the 2nd Duke of Argyll, Here Attributed to Hubert Gravelot after Louis François Roubiliac. 1745. Pen and Ink, Red, Black and White Chalk on Blue Paper, 72.5 by 43 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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25. Drawing for the Mansion House Pediment, Here Attributed to Hubert Gravelot after Louis François Roubiliac. 1744. Red Chalk, Pen and Ink with Wash on Paper, 34 by 64.5 cm. (Sir John Soane's Museum. London).
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26. Model for the Monument to the 2nd Duke of Argyll, by Louis François Roubiliac. 1745. Terracotta, 89.5 by 50.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
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27. Detail of Fig.20.
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