LOT DETAILS
Materials:
white marble, on a white marble socle
Size Notes:
overall
Markings:
The Socle Inscribed: Georgius Comes D. Orkney. Filius / Qunitus Gulielmi Dux Hamiltonie / Aetatis Sui 67. A.d. 1733 (George, Earl Of Orkney, The Fifth Son Of William, Duke Of Hamilton. His Age 67 In The Year Of Our Lord 1733)
Exhibited:
London, The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, Eighteenth century Portrait Busts, June-September 1959, no. 30;. London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010-2015 (inv. no. LOAN:SCPANON.1-2010)
Literature:
G. Vertue, Walpole Society XXII , Vertue Notebooks, vol. III, 1732, p. 57 (terracotta model);. M. I. Webb, Michael Rysbrack Sculptor, London, 1954, p. 222 (terracotta model);. M. I. Webb, 'A Rysbrack Discovery', Country Life, November 22, 1956, p. 1182;. M. Whinney and M. Crake, Eighteenth century Portrait Busts, exh. cat. The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London, 1959, p. 27, no. 30;. M. Whinney, Sculpture in Britain 1530-1830, London, 1964, pp. 87 and 256, n.17;. M. Baker, Figured in Marble: the making and viewing of eighteenth century sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2000, p.141, fig. 111;. I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M.G. Sullivan (eds.), A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 1087, no. 202;. D. Wilson, 'The British Augustan oligarchy in portraiture: Michael Rysbrack and his bust of the Earl of Orkney,' The British Art Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, 2010/2011, pp. 43-61;. D. Wilson, ‘Michael Rysbrack’s Antique Head on Modern Shoulders’, The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. XXI [2013], pp. 15-29, at pp. 19-20.
Provenance:
Almost certainly George Hamilton, 1 st Earl of Orkney, and by descent;. Arthur Oliver Villiers Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill, Viceroy of India and Margaret Russell (née Lygon), Baroness Ampthill, Oakley House, Bedfordshire, until circa 1935;. with Ron Green Antiques, Towcester, Northamptonshire, circa 1955;. with John Teed, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, by 1956;. Denys Sutton, London, acquired between 1957 and 1959, until 1991;. Sotheby's New York, 29-30 January 2009, lot 339;. Private Collection, London