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Lot Essay
A comparable figure of Bacchus is in the Formal Garden at Hardwick Hall. The Hardwick figure adopts the same pose as the present piece, although modelled in reverse, holding a cup to the raised, left, hand.
John Cheere (b.1709-d.1787), younger brother of the sculptor Sir Henry Cheere (1703-1781), acquired the statuary yard at Hyde Park Corner from the van Nost family in 1737. His most celebrated commission was for ninety-eight lead statues purchased by the Portuguese minister in London for the royal palace of Queluz, near Lisbon in 1756. On his retirement, about 1770, a sale of the contents of his yard was held.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
T. F. Friedman and T. Clifford, The Man at Hyde Park Corner: Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787, Leeds, 1974.
T. Clifford, The Plaster Shops of the Rococo and Neo-Classical era in Britain, Journal of the History of Collections, 4, No. 1 (1992) pp. 39-65.
John Cheere (b.1709-d.1787), younger brother of the sculptor Sir Henry Cheere (1703-1781), acquired the statuary yard at Hyde Park Corner from the van Nost family in 1737. His most celebrated commission was for ninety-eight lead statues purchased by the Portuguese minister in London for the royal palace of Queluz, near Lisbon in 1756. On his retirement, about 1770, a sale of the contents of his yard was held.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
T. F. Friedman and T. Clifford, The Man at Hyde Park Corner: Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787, Leeds, 1974.
T. Clifford, The Plaster Shops of the Rococo and Neo-Classical era in Britain, Journal of the History of Collections, 4, No. 1 (1992) pp. 39-65.