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George I’s Kensington Palace: the sculptural dimension
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1196-1205
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Author:
Marsden, Jonathan (Marsden, Jonathan)
Subjects
artists:
Kent, William / Rysbrack, Michael
artists:
Nost, John II, act. 1726-1780 / Carpenter, Andrew
buildings:
Kensington Palace, London, Great Britain
dates:
1720-1729
media:
Lead / Gilding
museums and institutions:
Royal Collection, (Great Britain)
patrons:
George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727
subjects:
Interiors / Sculpture / Statues / Copies / Busts
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Summer from Four Seasons, by Camillo Rusconi. c.1695. Marble, height (without pedestal) 74.9 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
10. Flora, by John van Nost II or Robert Pitt. 1724. Gilded lead, height 159 cm.; 11. Apollo, by John van Nost II or Robert Pitt. 1724. Gilded lead, height 165 cm.; 12. Mercury, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 167 cm.; 13. Diana, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 173 cm. (All © 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
14. Roman Marriage, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1723. Marble, 195 by 155 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
15. John Michael Rysbrack, by John Faber the Younger after John Vanderbank. 1734. Mezzotint, 35.4 by 25.2 cm (sheet). (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
16. Flora, by Sigismondo Betti. c.1710–30. Pencil drawing on paper, 57 by 48 cm. (Eton College Library, Windsor; reproduced by permission of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
Attributed works:
17. The Cupola Room, Kensington Palace. Photograph. c.1930. (© Historic Royal Palaces).
Attributed works:
18. Hermes Andros / Farnese, attributed to Andrew Carpenter. 1724. Lead, height 78 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
19. ‘Archimedes’, by Hubert Le Sueur. c.1637–38. Bronze, height 41 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
2. Kensington Palace: the King’s Gallery, by Charles Wild. 1816. Watercolour with touches of bodycolour over etched outlines, 19.8 by 25 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
20. Detail of Fig.7, showing a bust over the fireplace.
Attributed works:
21. Bust of an unknown woman. Early seventeenth century. Bronze, height 71 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
3. The King’s Gallery, Kensington Palace, looking east, with the paintings hung as in George I’s time, with Camillo Rusconi’s Four Seasons on the window piers. (© Historic Royal Palaces).
Attributed works:
4. Kensington Palace: Queen Caroline’s Drawing Room, by Charles Wild. c.1816. Pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over pencil, 20.3 by 25 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
5. A Roman statue, by Elisha Kirkall. 1720s. Mezzotint, 36.5 by 21.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
6. Kensington Palace: the Great Staircase, by Charles Wild. 1819. Pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over etched outlines, 25.2 by 20.2 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
7. Kensington Palace: the Cupola Room, by Richard Cattermole. c.1817. Pen and ink with watercolour and bodycolour, over pencil, 20.4 by 25.3 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
8. Bacchus, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 170 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Attributed works:
9. Ceres, by J.M. Rysbrack. 1724. Gilded lead, height 193 cm. (© 2023 HM King Charles III; Royal Collection Trust).
Article
‘An Antiquity of Piety’
11/2022 | 1436 | 164
Pages: 1078-1087
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Author:
Marsden, Jonathan (Marsden, Jonathan)
Subjects
artists:
Antico / follower of / Cavalli, Gian Marco
buildings:
Kensington Palace, London, Great Britain
collectors and dealers:
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
museums and institutions:
Royal Collection, (Great Britain) / Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, Germany
places:
Mantua / Munich / London
sources:
Doort, Abraham van der
subjects:
Bronzes / Busts / Roman Charity / Italian sculpture / Virtues / Classical mythology / Socles / Patina / House of Gonzaga
subjects:
Provenance / Attributions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Cimon and Pero, by Sebald Beham. 1544. Engraving, 7.1 by 4.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
8. Cleopatra, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico. c.1525. Bronze with gilding, height 64.4 cm. (Photograph © 2022 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Attributed works:
9. Ariadne, by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico. c.1520–22. Bronze with gilding and silver inlays, height 50 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; KHM-Museumsverbad).
Western art unattributed:
1. Pietas. North Italian, probably early sixteenth century. Bronze, height 50.8 cm. (Photograph Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2022).
Western art unattributed:
10. The back of the bust illustrated in Fig.1.
Western art unattributed:
11. The back of the bust illustrated in Fig.4.
Western art unattributed:
12. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the top of the head.
Western art unattributed:
13. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig. 4, showing the top of the head.
Western art unattributed:
2. The bust illustrated in Fig.1 on display in the Privy Chamber, Kensington Palace, London. (© Historic Royal Palaces).
Western art unattributed:
3. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the flange along the truncation. (Photograph Jonathan Marsden).
Western art unattributed:
4. Cinamon. North Italian, probably early sixteenth century. Bronze, height 57 cm. (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich; photograph Bastian Krack).
Western art unattributed:
5. Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity). North Italian, sixteenth century. Bronze, diameter 6.35 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
7. Detail of the bust illustrated in Fig.1, showing the condition of the surface.
Book Review
Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society
08/2020 | 1409 | 162
Pages: 719-720
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Reviewer:
Yarker, Jonathan (Yarker, Jonathan)
Subjects
artists:
Wren, Christopher / Hawksmoor, Nicholas
buildings:
Kensington Palace, London, Great Britain
subjects:
British architecture / Interiors / Monarchy / Royal Collection, (Great Britain)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Kensington Palace: Art, Architecture and Society Edited by Olivia Fryman. 392 pp. incl. 448 col. + b. & w. ills. (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2018), £55. ISBN 978–0–300– 23653–8. | :