A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER
A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER

ATTRIBUTED TO LORENZO BARTOLINI (1777-1850), AFTER JOSEPH NOLLEKENS, CIRCA 1810-20

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A CARVED MARBLE BUST OF WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER
ATTRIBUTED TO LORENZO BARTOLINI (1777-1850), AFTER JOSEPH NOLLEKENS, CIRCA 1810-20
On a circular marble socle
23 in. (58.6 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) high, overall
來源
M. Harris & Sons, 52 New Oxford St, London, where acquired on 12 October 1949 (£50).
出版
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
M. Tinti, Lorenzo Bartolini, Roma, 1936, fig. XXXVIII.
Prato, Palazzo Pretorio, Lorenzo Bartolini: mostra delle attivit di tutela, February-March 1978, fig. 26.
J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Sculptor and Revolutionary; British Portraits by Bartolini', Country Life, vol. 163, 1978, pp. 1655-6.
拍場告示
We would like to thank John Kenworthy-Browne for confirming his original attribution of this bust to Lorenzo Bartolini.

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Alexandra Cruden
Alexandra Cruden

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After Pitt's death in 1806, the sculptor Joseph Nollekens was asked to take a death mask which he used as a model to make marble busts of the ex-Prime Minister. Within a year he boasted that he had orders for 52 examples of the bust. According to his biographer J. T. Smith, he eventually sold 74 replicas in marble and later 600 plaster casts.
Lorenzo Bartolini, an Italian sculptor based in Florence who became popular with English patrons, was involved in the lucrative trade in copies of ancient and modern sculpture. In 1817 Henry Matthews observed that 'casts have been imported from London of busts of the King, Fox, Pitt, Nelson, Perceval and many others. Bartolini reproduces in marble and sends back to London' (Matthews cited in Kenworthy-Browne, loc. cit.).
The faintly incised eyes, heavily pronounced eyelids, long nostrils and distinctive carving of Pitt's swept back hair in the present portrait all point to the handling of Bartolini. These features can be seen, for example, in the plaster bust of a man included in the Prato exhibition (Prato, loc. cit.) and in the face of the central figure in the Marble Monument to the Poet Francesco Benedetti in the Biblioteca del Comune e dell'Accademia Etrusca in Cortona (Tinti, loc. cit.).

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