9.
The
Windsor
Castle Bust of Alexander Pope.
I have not inspected this bust and the photographs available are not good. At first glance it appears to be a Roubiliac bust, of the Third Type based on the Barber Institute terracotta, but it could be a later copy.
Marble,
21.3 ins. Eyes Cut. Windsor Castle.
Unsigned, fully draped, round socle,
Barber Institute type bust.
See
Wimsatt.61.5 page 252.
The
socle with a collar of Marble inscribed Alexander Pope is probably an
early nineteenth century replacement.
There
is also at Windsor a marble bust of Lord Ligonier by Roubiliac with
almost exactly the same detailing to the
collar of the socle. Provenance: Presented to George IV, when Prince Regent, by the Field Marshal's granddaughter, Mrs Francis Lloyd, in 1817.
Note. The bust of Pope was brought from Carlton House to Windsor. 1828.
See - For The Kings Pleasure. Hugh Roberts. N.599 Jutsham III, Deliveries pp.179-87. Perhaps entered the Royal Collection in the mid eighteenth century. Perhaps originally supplied to Queen Carolines Library
See - For The Kings Pleasure. Hugh Roberts. N.599 Jutsham III, Deliveries pp.179-87. Perhaps entered the Royal Collection in the mid eighteenth century. Perhaps originally supplied to Queen Carolines Library
There
are no records for the entry of this bust of Pope into the Royal Collection.
It is possible it came with the portrait of Lord Ligonier, (Member of
Parliament for Bath 1748 - 1763) it is also possible that it arrived
much earlier and was acquired by Frederick, Prince of Wales who
resided in Leicester House on the North side of Leicester
Fields (now Leicester Square) a stones throw from
St Martins Lane.
Lord Ligonier -
Roubiliac -
Royal Collection.
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