LOT DETAILS

Materials:

white marble, on a later veined grey marble base

Size Notes:

bust; base: 14.8 cm

Description:

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Markings:

inscribed: BY HEAVEN / INSPIRED.

Exhibited:

London, Tate Britain, Migrations. Journeys into British Art, 2012

Literature:

D. Wilson, ''By Heaven Inspired': A marble bust of Handel by Roubiliac rediscovered', The British Art Journal, vol. X, no. 1, 2009, pp. 14-29;. M. Baker, The Marble Index. Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-century Britain, New Haven and London, 2014, p. 259 and note. 63;. David Hunter, Lives of George Frideric Handel, future publication, to be included

Provenance:

Alfred Morrison (1821-1897), London;. his sale, Christie's London, 10 February 1900, lot 107;. acquired by S. T. Gooden (later, Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox) London, on commission for one Charles Eley, probably the Chairman of Eley Brothers, the well-known manufacturer of firearms cartridges