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Rome - Pantheon, Marcus Aurelius, Spinario and Horse Tamers
Dürer studies of Male Nude with snake and Female Nude with Shield Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Maerten van Heemskerck Panorama with the Abduction of Helen and self portrait in front of the Colosseum
Apollo Belvedere and Dürer’s Adam and Eve engraving of 1504 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Van Heemskerck St Luke painting Mary with classical sculpture in the background and the Great Pyramid from “Seven Wonders of the World” 1572
Giambologna Mercury and Hercules slaying a centaur
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One of the Horse Tamers and Hans Eworth’s allegorical portrait of Sir John Luttrell commemorating the Treaty of Boulogne in 1550 Pieter Breughel the Elder Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Callipygian Aphrodite Laocöon discovered 1506 Hans Eworth Queen Elizabeth with Juno, Minerva and Venus 1569 Adriaen de Vries Laocöon c 1600 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Detail of Phaeton from Rubens’s Fall of Phaeton (turned for comparison)
Barberini Faun Rubens’s The Fall of Phaeton 1604 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Marcantonio Raimondi’s engraving of the Crouching Venus 1505-6 and a detail from Rubens’s Fall of Phaeton (flipped for comparison) Rubens’s Venus, Cupid, Bacchus and Ceres of 1612 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Rubens’s Treaty of Angers from Marie de Borghese Gladiator discovered 1610 Medici cycle in the Louvre 1622-5 Botticelli’s Primavera
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Raphael’s Three Graces Rubens’s three Graces 1635 Rubens’s Judgement of Paris 1600 (National Gallery) Three Graces in Rubens’s Marie de Medici cycle (Education) Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Hermes from Pompeii
Titian The Fall Rubens The Fall
Workshop of Rubens and Jan Breughel
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The Collector Earl of Arundel by Rubens Inigo Jones by Hogarth after Van Dyck
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John De Critz’s portraits of Lucy Harington in Inigo Jones’s costumes for Ben Jonson’s Masque of Hymen 1606 Dr William Sterling Inigo Jones’s Masque costumes: Artemisia and Oberon Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Inigo Jones’s The Queen’s House Greenwich Inigo Jones’s Masque costumes: Penthesilea and Oceania Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Inigo Jones’s St Paul’s Covent Garden and Whitehall Banqueting House Aurora dispersing the Shades of Night from the Queen’s Presence Chamber, Queen’s House Greenwich possibly by John de Critz Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Drawing by John Evelyn made on his Grand Tour 1642-7 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of Charles I c 1637 (National Gallery)
Marcus Aurelius Hubert Le Sueur’s Equestrian Statue of Charles I in Trafalgar Square Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Van Dyck’s Cupid and Psyche 1638 Van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of Charles I with M Ludovisi Dionysus with a panther and a de St Antoine 1633 satyr Dr William Sterling Van Dyck’s Daedalus and Icarus c 1625 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
The ceiling of the Great Hall in the Queen’s House depicting Peace surrounded the Muses by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi (copy based on the original now in Marlborough House)
Orazio Gentileschi’s Sibyl owned by Charles I and painted at the same time as the Great Hall ceiling c 1635 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Claude Lorrain’s Landscape with Apollo and the Muses 1650 Dr William Sterling Claude Lorrain’s Dido and Aeneas Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Poussin’s Death of Germanicus 1628 Claude Lorrain’s Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba 1648 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
The Meleager Sarcophagus from the Borghese Collection – inspiration for Poussin’s Death of Germanicus including the figures of Germanicus and Agrippina
Dr William Sterling Poussin’s Et In Arcadia Ego 1637-8 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Charles Le Brun’s portrait of his brother Nicolas de Largillière’s portrait of Charles Le Jean Nocret’s Allegorical Family Portrait of Louis XIV c 1669 including Louis as Apollo Nicholas with model of Farnese Hermes Brun with model of Farnese Hermes
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Nicolas de Largillièrre’s self- portrait with model of Farnese Hermes
Charles Le Brun Hercules Slaying the Centaur c 1660 (using the Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk composition of the Farnese Bull) www.williamsterling.co.uk
Engraving after Kneller of the 5th earl of Salisbury as a child in Roman costume
Dr William Sterling Lorenzo Castro’s Battle of Actium of 1672 inspired by the recent Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk English translation of Virgil’s Aeneid www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Le Gros’s 1695 copy in Paris The Belvedere Apollo and Le Gros’s interpretation Veturia or Thusnelda in Florence Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
One of the Rome Horse Tamers and one of Coustou’s Marly Horses Marcus Aurelius in Rome and drawing for Bouchardon’s statue of Louis XV Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Groups of Grand Tourists
Dr William Sterling Two groups from the Society of Dilettanti by Joshua Reynolds Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Ramsay’s Judith Morrice as Diana c 1739
Boreas by James “Athenian” Stuart from the Antiquities of Athens 1761 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Le Gros’s Apollo Ramsay’s Norman MacLeod 1747 Le Gros’s Apollo Studio of Allan Ramsay George III after 1762 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Gavin Hamilton’s Death of Lucretia 1760s
Gavin Hamilton’s William Hamilton of Bangour in classical dress with classical figures on the predella c 1748
Gavin Hamilton’s Venus Giving Helen to Paris 1782-4
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Gavin Hamilton’s Achilles Lamenting over the Body of Patroclus 1760-3 Le Gros’s Apollo Reynolds’s Captain Augustus Keppel 1753 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Reynolds’s Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney Athletes from the House of the Papyri, Pompeii 1769 Meneleus and Patroclus with Reynolds’s sketch Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Reynolds’s Jane Countess of Harrington Reynolds’s Banaster Tarleton based on Hermes Banastre Tarleton flipped for comparison based on Le Gros’s Apollo tying his sandal Dr William Sterling Hermes Tying his Sandal (Cincinnatus) Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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The Various Inspirations for Reynolds’s Montgomery Sisters
Reynolds’s The Montgomery Sisters based on a variety of others works Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Reynolds’s Earl of Bellamont in the same pose as the Farnese Heracles Dr William Sterling Reynolds’s Richard Peers Symons with the Farnese Heracles in the Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk background www.williamsterling.co.uk
Zoffany’s painting of Charles Townley surrounded by his collection 1782
Zoffany’s Tribuna of the Uffizi with Antique Sculptures 1772-8 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Zoffany’s portrait of Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria with statue of Athena of the Vescovali type 1776
Zoffany’s Sir Lawrence Dundas and grandson with collection of Dr William Sterling classical models on the mantlepiece c 1775 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Kauffmann’s Judgement of Paris Wilson’s The Destruction of Niobe’s Children Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Wricklemarsh House
Fragonard’s The Swing and Progress of Love both containing classical statues
Dr William Sterling Batoni’s Sir Gregory Page-Turner c 1768 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Batoni’s Thomas Dundas 1764 with various Batoni’s Thomas Coke with Ariadne 1774 Batoni’s John Talbot 1773 with Ludovisi Batoni’s Thomas Estcourt with Homer 1772 Ares and version of Medici Vase Vatican sculptures Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
West’s Cupid and Psyche
West’s Robert Moncton in the pose of the Apollo Belvedere 1762 Batoni’s Charles Crowle 1761-2 with Batoni’s Richard Milles 1758 Farnese Hercules and Medici Ariadne Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Borghese Gladiator Romney’s Joseph Allen with Aesculapius Fuseli’s Odysseus before Scylla and Charybdis Dr William Sterling Romney’s Emma Hart as Circe 1782 Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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Wright’s boy admiring a statuette (the Crouching Aphrodite) c 1765
Dr William Sterling Wright’s Three Men Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
The Dying Gaul
A River God from the Parthenon Pediment
Wright’s Sir Brooke Boothby in unusual pose perhaps inspired by the Dying Gaul or a Greek River God Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Copley’s Watson and the Shark 1778 with a pose from the Dr William Sterling David’s The Oath of the Horatii 1786 Dr William Sterling Borghese Gladiator www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
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David’s The Death of Socrates 1787 David’s Brutus and the Bodies of his Sons 1789 Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Flaxman’s design for Wedgwood of Homer based on Sir William Hamilton’s Greek Pottery Collection and the Portland Vase
Flaxman’s Judgement of Paris Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk
Vigée Lebrun’s portrait of her daughter Julie as Flora 1799
The Apotheosis of Homer from Sir William The Portland Vase Hamilton’s Collection
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