LOT DETAILS

Materials:

white marble, on a white marble socle

Size Notes:

overall

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1813, no. 925

Literature:

Devonshire House Inventory , 1892, possibly p. 37, in the South Sitting Room 'Bust of Cavendish';. . Chatsworth Handlist of Paintings and Sculpture , nd, 28;. A. Graves, . The Royal Academy of Arts, A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1905, p. 382;. S. Upton, 'Private Chatsworth',. The World of Interiors , October 2001, p. 248;. I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, . A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, London, 2009, p. 909, no. 314

Provenance:

Probably commissioned by the sitter Lord George Augustus Henry Cavendish, later 1st Earl of Burlington of the 2nd Creation (1754-1834), 1812;. by descent to his son William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire (1808-1891);. by descent to Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (b. 1944), Chatsworth House, Derbyshire;. his sale,. Chatsworth: The Attic Sale , Sotheby's, Chatsworth, 5-7 October 2010, lot 364