Tuesday 15 November 2016

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck nee Harley Marble Bust by Michael Rysbrack and an Anoymous Bust at Powis Castle




Margaret Cavendish Bentinck nee Harley (1715 - 85).
Marble Bust.
Michael Rysbrack.
1727.


 
 
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Both of these poor quality low resolution images above from the Bridgman Image Library.
 
Carefully edited so that the inscriptions are illegible
 
Available in higher resolution a mere snip at £50 + vat each.
 
 
 
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (née Harley), Duchess of Portland, by George Vertue, after  John Michael Rysbrack, 1727 - NPG D14100 - © National Portrait Gallery, London



Margaret Cavendish Bentinck nee Harley

Duchess of Portland
Engraving by George Vertue
217 x 170 mm.
dated 1727.

© National Portrait Gallery, London

An Engraved portrait of Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-85), collector of art and natural history specimens and patron of the arts and sciences, after a bust sculpted by Rysbrack. 

This engraving originally published as a plate to the poet Elijah Fenton's edition of Waller's 'Works' of 1729. Portland spent fifty years assembling an immense collection of natural history and the fine arts at her home at Bulstrode, Buckinghamshire, which became the largest in Britain, exceeding even that of Hans Sloane. The most famous item in her collection was the so-called Portland vase which she purchased from Sir William Hamilton (now in the British Museum). After the duchess' death, her collection was auctioneed in a sale lasting thirty-eight days. 


Bust Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), 1727
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Margaret Cavendish Bentinck nee Harley.

Miniature by Christian Frederick Zinke 1683/4 - 1767).

© The Portland Collection. The Harley Gallery.



Margaret Cavendish (Harley), Duchess of Portland; William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland; Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 

Engraving 
After Zinke 
George Vertue
1738
233 x 332 mm.

© National Portrait Gallery, London










 A Tea Party at The Countess of Portland’s, 1732. 
Charles Philips

© The Portland Collection. The Harley Gallery.



Margaret Cavendish Bentinck nee Harley.


Thomas Hudson

© The Portland Collection. The Harley Gallery.




Margaret Cavendish Bentinck nee Harley.


Michael Dahl

Image Courtesy Christie's


An Anonymous Plaster Bust at Powis Castle.





An Anonymous Plaster Bust
traditionally believed to be French.

Very low resolution image from the National Trust Website

see - http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/1185530