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Henry Cheere’s statue of Christopher Codrington: conventions and setting
11/2021 | 1424 | 163
Pages: 1038-1045
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Cheere, Henry / Hawksmoor, Nicholas
dates:
1730-1739
museums and institutions:
All Souls' College, Oxford, Great Britain
patrons:
Codrington (1668-1710), Christopher
subjects:
British sculpture / Statues / Slave trade / Libraries / British architecture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The library, All Souls College, Oxford. (Photograph Warden and Fellows, All Souls College, Oxford).
Attributed works:
2. Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster, by Henry Cheere and Henry Scheemakers. 1728. Marble. (St Michael, Edenham, Lincolnshire; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. William III, by Henry Cheere. 1733–34. Marble, height 175 cm. (Bank of England, London; photograph Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Christopher Codrington, by James Thornhill. 1702. Oil on canvas, 237.5 by 151.1 cm. (All Souls College, Oxford; photograph Warden and Fellows, All Souls College, Oxford).
Attributed works:
5. Christopher Codrington, by Henry Cheere. 1732–34. Marble. (Library, All Souls College, Oxford; photograph Warden and Fellows, All Souls College, Oxford).
Attributed works:
6. The library of All Souls College, by Thomas Malton. 1802. Etching and aquatint, 42 by 32 cm. (Photograph Warden and Fellows, All Souls College, Oxford).
Attributed works:
7. The North Quadrangle, All Souls College, Oxford, looking north to the original main door of the library. (Photograph Warden and Fellows, All Souls College, Oxford).
Attributed works:
8. Plan of the North Quadrangle, All Souls College, Oxford, based on Nicholas Hawksmoor’s 1715 plan. (From H. Colvin and J.S.G. Simmons: All Souls: An Oxford College and its Buildings, Oxford 1989).
Article
Socles and settings: Roubiliac’s busts of George II and Viscount Ligonier
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 607-610
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Author:
Marsden, Jonathan (Marsden, Jonathan)
Subjects
artists:
Roubiliac, Louis François
dates:
1760-1769
media:
Sculpture / Busts / Portraits
patrons:
Ligonier, Viscount, John / George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760
subjects:
Socles / Interiors
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. The Long Room, 12 North Audley Street, London. (Photograph by A.E. Henson, 1925; Country Life).
Attributed works:
11. Chimneypiece in the Long Room, 12 North Audley Street, London. (Photograph by A.E. Henson, 1925; Country Life).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Article
Henrietta Finch, sculptor?
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 299-302
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Finch, Henrietta / Rysbrack, Michael / Roubiliac, Louis François
dates:
1740-1749
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain / York Minster, York, Great Britain / Kenwood House, The Iveagh Bequest, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Women artists / Patronage / British sculpture / Commemorative monuments
subjects:
Collections, Public / Marbles / Busts / Portraits / Identification / Attributions / Attribution
Illustrations
Attributed works:
10. Detail of Fig.9
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.8 showing the inscription
Attributed works:
7. Elizabeth Finch, by Louis François Roubiliac (English Heritage, Kenwood House, London)
Attributed works:
8. Elizabeth Finch, attributed to Henrietta Finch, after Louis François Roubiliac (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Attributed works:
9. The Finch family, by Charles Philips (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Exhibition Review
Terracotta Sculpture 1740-1840. Paris, New York and Stockholm
12/2003 | 1209 | 145
Pages: 880-883
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Article
Bouchardon's British Sitters: Sculptural Portraiture in Rome and the Classicising Bust around 1730
12/2000 | 1173 | 142
Pages: 752-762
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Author:
Harrison, Colin (Harrison, Colin)
Author:
Laing, Alastair (Laing, Alastair)
Subjects
artists:
Bouchardon, Edmé
dates:
1700-1749
places:
France / England / Italy / Rome
subjects:
French painting / Portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Philipp von Stosch, by Edme Bouchardon. 1727. Marble, ht. 85 cm. (Staatliche Museen, Skulpturensammlung, Berlin).
Attributed works:
23. John Gordon (Profile View of Fig.24).
Attributed works:
24. John Gordon, by Edme Bouchardon. 1728. Marble, ht. 78.8 cm. (Highland Council).
Attributed works:
25. John, Lord Hervey, by Edme Bouchardon. 1729. Marble, ht. 76.2 cm. (Private Collection).
Attributed works:
26. John, Lord Hervey, by Edme Bouchardon. 1729. Terracotta, ht. 62 cm. (National Trust, Ickworth House).
Attributed works:
27. Lady Lechmere, by Edme Bouchardon. 1730. Marble. (Westminster Abbey, London).
Attributed works:
28. Sir Thomas Robinson, by Filippo Della Valle. 1730. Marble. (Westminster Abbey, London).
Attributed works:
29. The Duchess of Buckingham, by Edme Bouchardon. 1731-32. Marble. (Private Collection).
Attributed works:
31. Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, by Michael Rysbrack. c.1723. Marble, ht. 62 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
32. Frontispiece to Volume II of A. F. Marsili's Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, by F. Otens after P. L. Ghezzi. Engraving 1725, Book 1726. (Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust).
Attributed works:
33. John Gordon, by Giovanni Pozzi. 1728. Wax, diam. 7.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
34. John, Lord Hervey, by Lorenz Natter. c.1729. Engraved Gem. (Private Collection).
Attributed works:
35. Daniel Wray, by Giovanni Pozzi. 1726. Bronze, diam. c.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
36. Sir Thomas Robinson, by an Unidentified Carver Working in Rome, after Filippo della Valle. 1730. Ivory, ht. 8 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Gift of Daniel Katz).
Attributed works:
37. John, Lord Hervey, Frontispiece from Letters between Lord Hervey and Dr Middleton Concerning the Roman Senate, by T. Cook, after Edme Bouchardon. 1778. Engraving. (National Portrait Gallery, Heinz Archive).
Attributed works:
38. Title Page of Antiquitates Middletoniae with the Obverse and Reverse of Pozzi's Medal of Dr Middleton. 1745.
Attributed works:
39. Monument to Sir Thomas Robinson and Lady Lechmere, after a Design by Sir Thomas Robinson with Busts by Edme Bouchardon and Filippo della Valle. c.1770-80. Marble. (Westminster Abbey, London).
Western art unattributed:
30. Lord Binning, Italian, Perhaps Neapolitan. c.1732. Marble. (Coll. Earl of Haddington, Mellerstain House).
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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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Roubiliac, Louis François
artists:
Scheemakers, Peter
dates:
1700-1799
museums and institutions:
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
places:
England / France / Ireland / Dublin
subjects:
Busts / French sculpture / British sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
37. Homer, by Peter Scheemakers. Marble, 78 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
Attributed works:
38. Plato, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 78 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
Attributed works:
39. Isaac Newton, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 80 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
Attributed works:
40. Alexander Pope, by L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 63 cm. High (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Attributed works:
41. Isaac Newton, by L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 55.9 cm. High (Royal Society).
Attributed works:
42. Aristotle, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 78 cm. High (Trinity College, Dublin).
Attributed works:
43. Back of John Ray, by L. F. Roubiliac. Terracotta. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
44. Andrew Fountaine, by L. F. Roubiliac. Marble, 78 cm. High (Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Wiltshire).
Attributed works:
45. Back of Queen Caroline, by Michael Rysbrack. Terracotta, 66 cm. High (Rijksmuscum, Amsterdam).
Attributed works:
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).]
Attributed works:
47. Side View of Socrates, Attributed to L. F. Roubiliac. Marble. (Trinity College, Dublin).
Attributed works:
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).]
Attributed works:
49. Back of Alexander Pope, by Michael Rysbrack. Marble, 49 cm. High (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
50. Back of Francis Smith, by Michael Rysbrack. Marble, 75.5 cm. High (Private Collection).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).]
Attributed works:
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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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Roubiliac, Louis François
artists:
Rysbrack, Michael
buildings:
Westminster Abbey, London, Great Britain
dates:
1700-1799
patrons:
Dukes of Argyll
subjects:
British sculpture
subjects:
Documents
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Monument to John, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, by Louis François Roubiliac. 1749. (Westminster Abbey, London).
Attributed works:
21. Frontispiece to the Universal Magazine, 1749.
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
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).
Attributed works:
27. Detail of Fig.20.
Article
Lord Shelburne's 'Costly Fabrick': Scheemakers, Roubiliac and Taylor as Rivals
12/1990 | 1053 | 132
Pages: 841-848
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Scheemakers, Peter
artists:
Roubiliac, Louis François
artists:
Taylor, Robert
buildings:
All Saints Church, High Wycombe, Great Britain
dates:
1700-1799
patrons:
Petty, Henry, First Earl of Shelburne, 1675-1751
places:
England
places:
High Wycombe
subjects:
British sculpture / Funerary structures / Sepulchral monuments
subjects:
Documents
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Monument to Henry Petty, Earl of Shelburne, by Peter Scheemakers. Completed 1754. Marble. (All Saints, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire).
Attributed works:
21. Design for a Monument to Henry Petty, Earl of Shelburne, by Robert Taylor. 1751. Pen and Wash on Paper, 51 by 36 cm. (Taylor Institution, Oxford).
Attributed works:
22. Figure Originally from Fig.23. Terracotta, 8.7 cm. High. (Royal Museum of Scotland).
Attributed works:
23. Model for a Monument to Henry Petty, Earl of Shelburne, by Louis François Roubiliac. Probably 1751. Terracotta, 71 by 64 by 21 cm. (Royal Museum of Scotland).
Western art unattributed:
24. View of the Interior of All Saints, High Wycombe, with the Shelburne Pew Filling the Chancel Arch. Early Nineteenth Century, after Addleshaw and Etchells.
Short Notice
That 'Most Rare Master Monsii Le Gros' and His 'Marsyas'
10/1985 | 991 | 127
Pages: 702+704-707
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Le Gros, Pierre II, 1666-1719
dates:
1700-1749
places:
Italy / Rome / France
subjects:
French sculpture / Marsyas
Illustrations
Attributed works:
54. Marsyas, Attributed to Pierre Le Gros. c.1715(?). Marble, Height 69 cm. (With Base). (Collection the Earl of Plymouth).
Attributed works:
55. Another View of Fig.54.Marsyas, [Attributed to Pierre Le Gros. c.1715(?). Marble, Height 69 cm. (With Base). (Collection the Earl of Plymouth).]
Attributed works:
58 and 59. Details from View of the Gardens of Hartwell House, by Balthasar Nebot. 1738. (Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury).
Western art unattributed:
56. Marsyas, after Pierre Le Gros. French, Eighteenth Century. Marble, Height 89.2 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Western art unattributed:
57. St Sebastian. French (?). Seventeenth Century. Bronze, Height 39.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Frankfurt-am-Main. Dürer and Sculpture
07/1982 | 952 | 124
Pages: 471-473
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Author:
Baker, Malcolm (Baker, Malcolm)
Subjects
artists:
Dürer, Albrecht
dates:
1980-1989
museums and institutions:
Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
places:
Germany / Frankfurt
subjects:
German sculpture / Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
89. Naming of St John the Baptist, by Georg Schweigger. Dated 1642. Honestone (Payne Knight Bequest, British Museum; Exh. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt-am-Main).
Western art unattributed:
90. Christ from a Mocking Group. South German(?), Second Half of Seventeenth Century. Boxwood. (Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Exh. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt-am-Main).
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