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Rysbrack's Busts of James Gibbs and Alexander Pope from Henrietta Street Gordon Balderston, ‘Rysbrack’s busts of James Gibbs and Alexander Pope from Henrietta Street’, The Georgian Group Journal, Vol. XI, 2001, pp. 1–28 TEXT © THE AUTHORS 2001 RYSBRACK’S BUSTS OF JAMES GIBBS AND ALEXANDER POPE FROM HENRIETTA STREET GORDON BALDERSTON n Rupert Gunnis published the fact that a The purpose of this article is to present, for the first Imarble bust of James Gibbs ( – ) by time, a coherent account of their common history up Michael Rysbrack ( – ) had been sold at to and of their respective provenances thereafter. Christie’s in . When idle curiosity prompted the Even though much of their story is well- present writer to look at the original auctioneer’s documented, there are no first-hand accounts to book, he discovered that Rysbrack’s marble bust of explain what motivated Gibbs to commission a Alexander Pope ( – ) had been written in by portrait of himself and another of Alexander Pope hand as the following lot and that both busts some years later – other than an intrinsic interest in belonged to Sir George Chalmers, an impecunious portraiture. This is evident from a letter written by painter. Since Chalmers was the brother-in-law of the Adrian Drift, Matthew Prior’s secretary and heir to Gibbs’s home (Cosmo Alexander, a Scottish amanuensis , to Edward, Lord Harley, on painter), it can now be established that Gibbs kept December (two months after Prior’s death). Drift marble busts of himself and of Alexander Pope in his relates that Gibbs had commissioned a (lead?) home at Henrietta Street. This newly-discovered version of Antoine Coysevox’s marble bust of Prior provenance and Pope’s own words that his portrait from Richard Dickenson of Hyde Park Corner : had been made ‘at the request of Mr. Gibbs the I also saw, My Lord, at Dickenson’s a fine Copy of the Architect’ – hitherto much doubted – prove that Buste of M r Prior, bespoke by M r Gibbs, and done after Gibbs himself commissioned both busts from his own Fancy, the head is the same, but the other part Rysbrack in the s: proof that has been lacking is less, and in lieu of the Cap, M r Dickenson has put hitherto. Gibbs emerges as one of Rysbrack’s earliest short hair a la romaine, which has this Effect as to show r and most devoted patrons. a greater likeness of M Prior’s face, and is more in the manner of the Ancient Busto’s . The two busts are now housed in museums in London, more-or-less equidistant from their original Gibbs was concerned to create a better likeness of the home in Henrietta Street. Alexander Pope (Fig. ) was man he knew and to focus more attention on the purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in sitter than on his attire . from the Athenæum Club and James Gibbs (Fig. ) Rysbrack was introduced to Gibbs soon after was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in October , and, although very little is known about from St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. At the time, their early collaboration, Gibbs clearly benefited from separate physical locations seemed appropriate for involving Rysbrack in his professional projects . But these busts, dated several years apart (Figs. and ) he also commissioned works from Rysbrack on his and long published as separate entities in Rysbrack’s own account and, despite Vertue’s harsh assessment œuvre . Previously there was no evidence to connect of their working relationship in , Gibbs was one them, and it has usually been assumed that Pope was of Rysbrack’s earliest and most devoted patrons. The made for the nd Earl of Oxford’s library at Wimpole . early years of the s saw Gibbs flourishing as an THE GEORGIAN GROUP JOURNAL VOLUME XI RYSBRACK ’ S BUSTS OF JAMES GIBBS AND ALEXANDER POPE FROM HENRIETTA STREET Fig. Michael Rysbrack, Alexander Pope , , marble, National Portrait Gallery, London . Christie’s Images . THE GEORGIAN GROUP JOURNAL VOLUME XI RYSBRACK ’ S BUSTS OF JAMES GIBBS AND ALEXANDER POPE FROM HENRIETTA STREET Fig. Michael Rysbrack, James Gibbs , , marble. Victoria and Albert Museum, London . THE GEORGIAN GROUP JOURNAL VOLUME XI RYSBRACK ’ S BUSTS OF JAMES GIBBS AND ALEXANDER POPE FROM HENRIETTA STREET Fig. Michael Rysbrack, James Gibbs , signature and date on back. Victoria and Albert Museum, London . Fig. Michael Rysbrack, Alexander Pope , monogram and date on back. National Portrait Gallery, London . architect and, as Friedman puts it, ‘encouraged by the back is signed and dated I AC : G IBBS Arch: | M :l this new prosperity and independence, he sat for at Ryfbrack fculp: | . (Fig. ). This is the bust that least three portraits by Rysbrack between and Gibbs left to Cosmo Alexander, the heir to his home, ’ . Only two of these are known to exist today. in . The other is a strikingly different image of a Both are marble busts dated . One, the main successful man in his forties. It presents Gibbs with a subject of this article, depicts Gibbs wearing a wig bald head and with drapery wrapped around his and his own clothes (even the stitching is reproduced); shoulders, in the manner of ancient busts of Scipio THE GEORGIAN GROUP JOURNAL VOLUME XI RYSBRACK ’ S BUSTS OF JAMES GIBBS AND ALEXANDER POPE FROM HENRIETTA STREET Africanus; the smooth, undulating surface of its . ... he was first employed by the late Ld reverse has a two-line inscription by Rysbrack Nottingham to model his picture from the life. which he did to a great degree of likeness. & in an excellent stile – reading I AC : GIBBS Arch: | M: l Ryfbrack . From that time to this he had Modelld from the life This strong and lifelike portrait had been placed in many Nobleman Ladies & Learned men & others. a the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, by May , when list of them as folows. I had from himself – and I have it is mentioned in Gibbs’s will as already in situ – seen the Models when done. ‘they [Gibbs’s books] may be placed next to my Earl of Nottingham — in Marble after it r t Bufto’ ; it must have been built into its circular niche M . I. Gibbs arch. in Marble a profil. di to. ————— — di to . above a doorway at gallery level after the building’s completion in , given that the socle and inscribed The date of on both marble busts of James plinth are cut into the moulded frame of the oculus . Gibbs coincides with a visit to Rysbrack’s house Both marble busts derive from a clay model of which Gibbs planned with Alexander Pope one Gibbs bald-headed (Figs. and ), which George Thursday evening in or . Gibbs wrote to Vertue described in as ‘extreamly like him’ – it Pope to arrange meeting at Williams’s Coffee House also served as the model for a marble bas-relief of beforehand: Gibbs wearing a wig: Mr Rysbracks house is in the further end of Bond d Mr. Jacomo or. James. Gibbs Architect born at street Just cross Tyburn Rode in L Oxfords ground Aberdeen. a no . . his head a Moddeld upon the right hand, going to his Chaple – but I will by M r. Rysbrack extreamly like him waite on you att Williames coffie house near St Jameses a bald head. cutt in Marble from that about five on Thursday. another basso relievo. with a wigg on . The letter is not dated, but it can be deduced from Later on in , in an otherwise undated passage, external evidence that it was written between May Vertue again compliments Rysbrack on the likeness and May . Gibbs’s words ‘but I will waite of his clay portrait of Gibbs bald-headed: on you att Williames coffie house’ imply that he would accompany Pope to Rysbrack’s house, and, amongst the Ingenious Artists now living I much admire M r Rysbrack Statuary of Antwerp whose although the specific purpose of their visit is not moddels in Clay are admirable. besides those done for known , it is tempting to suppose that, with the Monuments. he has made from the life the portraits of carving of his two marble portrait busts nearing several persons extreamly like. that of the Lord completion (both are dated ), Gibbs had already r r Notingham. S . T. Hewett. Surveyor. M Gibbs thought of commissioning a bust of Pope from Architect. he who from the time of his first comeing to Rysbrack. An interval of several years between a clay England almost has much imployd him but always done it for his own advantage not for Encouragement. model and a marble was not unusual, as in the case of that the poor Man has oppend his mind to me & told James Gibbs . me of his extravagant exactions on his labour that he Gibbs paid Rysbrack £ on November coud not possibly live had not other busines come in and £ on March . Although these amounts to help him of more proffit. an instance of this is now tally with Rysbrack’s charges for making a clay bust in the Monument of M r Prior which he is now about . and a marble version of it , there is no evidence However, Vertue’s first specific reference to a marble other than the coincidence of dates to prove that version – it is not clear which one – dates from , these particular payments were for the clay model of when he drew up a list of portraits done by Rysbrack Alexander Pope nor for work on the marble busts of since ‘he first came to England’ (in October ): James Gibbs. Nor, indeed, can it be assumed that the THE GEORGIAN GROUP JOURNAL VOLUME XI RYSBRACK ’ S BUSTS OF JAMES GIBBS AND ALEXANDER POPE FROM HENRIETTA STREET Fig.
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