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Paintings: G0727
Title
Louis Francois Roubiliac at work on a bust of David Garrick
Technique
Oil on canvas
Subject
Artist
Date
1757
Dimensions
Height: 112.4cm
Width: 91.5cm
height (frame): 131cm
width (frame): 108cm
Width: 91.5cm
height (frame): 131cm
width (frame): 108cm
Inscription/signature
"Andrea Soldi / Pinxt ft / 1757 / 8" (grey paint b. r.)
Provenance
Presented by Alderson Burrell Horne, 1909
Other number
CKA 601
Gift 337
Gift 337
Exhibition history
2009 London, Orleans House Gallery "The Face and Figure of Shakespeare. How Britain's 18th century sculptors invented a National Hero. (19); 2009 Leeds, Henry Moore Institute "Subject/Sitter/Maker. Portraits of an eighteenth-century artistic circle"; 2009-10 London, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Literature
Walpole Society
Roubiliac's brown hair is just visible under his purple velvet cap. He raises a modelling tool in his right hand to jab at the wet green clay bust of Garrick, and with his left holds a rag or piece of sponge, stained with clay, to the base of the bust. Roubiliac wears a purple jacket and a loose open-necked shirt.
For Roubiliac's work for Garrick and the versions of the bust of Garrick see S0015. Adrien Carpentiers painted a portrait of Roubiliac, signed and dated 1762 (oil on canvas 125.7 x 100.3, National Portrait Gallery 303), showing him in a similar studio garb, at work on the model for his statue of Shakespeare for Garrick's Shakespeare Temple at Hampton.
For Roubiliac's work for Garrick and the versions of the bust of Garrick see S0015. Adrien Carpentiers painted a portrait of Roubiliac, signed and dated 1762 (oil on canvas 125.7 x 100.3, National Portrait Gallery 303), showing him in a similar studio garb, at work on the model for his statue of Shakespeare for Garrick's Shakespeare Temple at Hampton.
