Giovanni Battista Guelfi
Giovanni Battista Guelfi (1690–1736) was an Italian sculptor who worked in England. He trained with Camillo Rusconi in Rome and in 1714 was invited by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington to move to England, where he restored the Arundel marbles and executed several portrait busts and monuments.[1]
Bust of Robert Boyle by Giovanni Battista Guelfi; Royal Society of Chemistry
List of works
- Bust of Robert Boyle, now at the Royal Society of Chemistry; commissioned in 1731 by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington for Burlington House, later displayed at Chiswick House. Virtually identical to that commissioned by Queen Caroline for her grotto at Richmond in 1732–3,[2][3][4] now in the Royal Collection at Kensington Palace.[5]
- Bust of Anne Lennox, Duchess of Richmond (1671-1722), part of her 1734 monument in the Brudenell family vault St Peter's Church, Deene, Northamptonshire.[6][7]
Further reading
References
- Webb, M.I. (1955). "Giovanni Battista Guelfi: an Italian Sculptor working in England". The Burlington Magazine. 97 (626)
- "Poetical Essays". The Gentleman's Magazine. 3 (April): 28. 1733.
- Balderston, Gordon (2008). "Five busts for Queen Caroline's Hermitage in Richmond". Sculpture Journal. 17 (1): 83–88. doi:10.3828/sj.17.1.7.
- Maddison, R.E.W. (1969). Life of the Honorable Robert Boyle. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 196–202.
- "Newly Discovered Bust of Boyle". Birkbeck Library.
- "Anne, Duchess of Richmond". V&A Collections. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- "Church of St Peter". Historic England. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
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