15929994380001312637261000Standard Recordobject-29741170206259997516854621030001702062267509fitz-onlineadlib-object-29741https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29741ee15b6e5-a481-3f56-8447-f52c3f896c8d11personreferenceagent-92531adlib-agent-9253167ac3ed6-5ef3-3fd8-ad26-a0e364c7cb14Milton, Johnreferenceterm-98228adlib-term-982283d747999-296f-3944-9a84-2936c3ae9f5csculpturereferenceterm-98112adlib-term-9811232d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139portraitApplied ArtsBust. Terracotta. The sitter is turned front, facing and looking slightly right. He is bare-headed, and his hair is falling long over the shoulders. He is clean-shaven. The sitter wears a doublet, with wide, falling-band collar, and drapery passing over the right shoulder, and under the left arm. The bust terminates in a low square base, inscribed on the front 'MILTON'.M.2-19321accession numberM.2-193229741priref29741external IDCAM_CCF_M_2_1932urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29741https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29741on front of baseinscribedMILTONsigned and datedat backMich: Rysbrack/1738signaturereferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumBought with the Anne J. Pertz Fundreferenceagent-172813adlib-agent-172813af755c62-0b11-3ddf-b099-9a5a364f7056Hatherton, Lord193219321932boughtEntry date: 1932-07-1217381738dated 17381738makerreferenceagent-119504adlib-agent-119504d64c0213-dfd5-3ea1-8ac4-b9638f633409Rysbrack, John MichaelBased in London from 1720, Antwerp-born Rysbrack made several busts of Milton, the first in 1728 for the ‘Temple of British Worthies’ at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire. There is also a marble example in Westminster Abbey. This terracotta bust was made in 1738 for the architect William Benson (1682–1754), as the model for a subsequent version in marble. Rysbrack kept the terracotta and sold it in 1757 to Sir Edward Littleton. It was displayed in Littleton’s newly-built family seat, Teddesley Hall, Staffordshire, together with the bust of Alexander Pope (M.3-1932).Milton was a famous 17th-century English poet, famed for his epic Paradise Lost (1667). His portrait was frequently included in sculpted groups of writers, commissioned by 18th-century English aristocrats in imitation of ancient Greek and Roman practice.The design is based directly on the ad vivum engraving by William Faithorne of 1670.referenceterm-121036adlib-term-121036d94c6987-b658-37d7-a4c1-f5da804d2e4018th Century, second quarter#referenceterm-107736adlib-term-107736e93a8dd1-d76d-320b-be9b-afa352e322a1George IIreferenceterm-33162adlib-term-331626f1730c6-1049-36b9-80ae-d22bc9d2254cterracottaHeightcm60Heightin23 1/2referencemedia-206176adlib-media-206176932c0d40-cf3a-362d-93fb-2d2fb4ac48e5jpegaa/aa37/M_2_1932_1_201010_adn21_dc2.jpg1heightpixels1050widthpixels78816162669753351imagejpegaa/aa37/mid_M_2_1932_1_201010_adn21_dc2.jpg1heightpixels666widthpixels50016162669753351imagejpegaa/aa37/M_2_1932_1_201010_adn21_dc2.jpg1heightpixels1050widthpixels78816162669753351imagejpegaa/aa37/preview_M_2_1932_1_201010_adn21_dc2.jpg1heightpixels333widthpixels25016162669753351image0media
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imagereferenceterm-23035adlib-term-23035f9693b6b-2e4a-3666-acf8-973403f65fcebusthistory noteFormerly in the collection of Sir Edward Littleton, Bart., who bought it from Rysbrack for his new house, Teddesley Park, Staffordshire, 1757; it remained there until removed to London by Lord Hatherton, a collateral descendant, in 1931; exh. Messrs Spink's, London and bought through them from Lord Hatherton, 1932.referenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreference numberliteralnameSculpture UKSculpture UKreferencepublication-2373adlib-publication-2373af5f3d30-3f1d-3b31-8558-219b68e76248The Art of John Michael Rysbrack in TerracottaPubl. Illustrated, p. 221.
p. 115 'The two other marble busts of Milton by Rysbrack went to Auditor Benson's house, which he built at Wilbury in Wiltshire, and from there passed either by inheritance or by purchase to Stourhead. They stand in niches over the doors in the Library at Stourhead.'p. 221referencepublication-2371adlib-publication-2371695dd7d2-a539-3902-8b15-b14801eeb857Michael Rysbrack: SculptorPubl. no. 104, p. 77
This bust corresponds with Rysbrack's first marble bust of Milton, now in Westminster Abbey, with a few minor changes of arrangement. Another marble of the same pattern is said to have been made for Auditor William Benson. The pattern is evidently based directly on the ad vivum engraving of William Faithorne of 1670. 'When I was at Stourhead, a house in Wiltshire formerly belonging to the Colt Hoares, now in the possession of the National Trust, the other day, I noticed in the library a marble version of our Milton by Rysbrack. So far as I know it has not previously been recorded.'J.W. Goodison, 7. 9. 1953.p. 77referencepublication-709adlib-publication-709b6198d7b-a068-312d-bee5-3a4f7c0b71a5Catalogue of Cambridge Portraits I The University CollectionCf. The marble bust at Stourhead, p. 167, no. 76. This bust is mentioned in text. See also George Vertue's engraving of 1725 of Milton, p. 169, no. 77. Based on William Faithorne's engraving, published 1670.pp. 167, 169referencepublication-2374adlib-publication-237462512075-d73d-33b1-a383-26400a0aa43eMichael Rysbrack Sculptor 1694-1770subjectreferenceterm-1609adlib-term-160984f2e5e2-0de4-3096-98b9-7bb4c12aaffdmaleliteralmalemalereferenceterm-23035adlib-term-23035f9693b6b-2e4a-3666-acf8-973403f65fcebustbustJohn Milton (1608-1674)object
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