Old Master Sculpture & Early Jewels
Old Master Sculpture & Early Jewels
Property from an Important British Private Collection
John Ternouth
Bust of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt (1770-1844)
Lot Closed
July 5, 02:39 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important British Private Collection
John Ternouth
Andover 1796-1848 London
British, dated 1827
Bust of Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Bt (1770-1844)
white marble
signed and dated: TERNOUTH SCR. / 1827.
66cm., 26in. overall
George William Fox Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird (1807–1878);
thence by family descent to the present owners
thence by family descent to the present owners
London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1827, no. 1111 [possibly];
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, (inv. no. NGL 054.89) [certainly]
Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotland, (inv. no. NGL 054.89) [certainly]
Burdett was a Whig politician who, like Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, was a strong supporter of Charles James Fox. His painted portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence is in the National Portrait Gallery, London (inv. no. NPG 3820). Another version of Ternouth's bust portrait is in the members' entrance of the Palace of Westminster, London. The Westminster bust appears to have been the version exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1827, no. 1111. However, given the fact that the present bust is dated 1827, it cannot be discounted that the Kinnaird bust was in fact the one shown.
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts. A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1906, vol. vii, pp. 347-348;
I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, London, 2009, p. 1231, no. 52
RELATED LITERATURE
A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts. A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, London, 1906, vol. vii, pp. 347-348;
I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, London, 2009, p. 1231, no. 52