Louis-François Roubiliac

Louis-François Roubiliac (French: Roubillac ) (* 1695 ; † January 11, 1762 ) was an important French sculptor of the 18th century who went to Great Britain in 1731 and worked there very successfully.

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Roubiliac was largely commissioned with statues and busts, especially with funerary monuments . His most important works are the ornate tombs in Westminster Abbey , of George Frideric Handel , Admiral Warren, George Wade , Elizabeth Nightingale and the tomb of the 2nd Duke of Argyll , which earned him the reputation of the glorious sculptor. The statues of George I , Isaac Newton , the 6th Duke of Somerset in Cambridge, and George II , erected in London's Golden Square, are also his works.

In April 1738, Roubiliac was commissioned by Johnathan Tyers to create the world's first Handel monument , which also for the first time showed a non-native Englishman or nobleman. Intended for London's Vauxhall Gardens , this monument, in which Roubiliac portrayed Handel as Orpheus , attracted numerous spectators to the park.

Trinity College in Cambridge owns a whole series of busts , which Roubiliac created by distinguished students. His most famous work is the Nightingale Monument in Westminster Abbey. The famous Shakespeare bust (also called Davenant bust ) is attributed to him and belongs to the Garrick Club in London. The Shakespeare statue, commissioned by David Garrick , can be seen in the British Museum .

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  Handel Memorial 1738, Vauxhall Gardens London , by Louis-François Roubiliac (now on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum )

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  Ann Bellamy Lynn and her husband George Lynn are buried in St Mary's church in Southwick in Northamptonshire

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  One of Roubiliac's marble busts for Trinity College, Cambridge

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  Isaac Newton in Trinity College (Cambridge)

literature

• Melanie Doderer-Winkler, "Magnificent Entertainments: Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals" (London and New Haven, Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art, 2013). ISBN 0300186428 and ISBN 978-0300186420 .
• KAM Esdaile: Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College Cambridge . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1924 (New edition Cambridge University Press , 2009, ISBN 9781108002318 )
• Le Roy de Sainte-Croix: Vie et ouvrages de LF Roubiliac, sculpteur lyonnais (1695–1762). P. Ollendorff, Paris 1882.
• Allan Cunningham : The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Volume 3, pp. 31–67, John Murray, London 1831 (see here )
• Dutton Cook : Art in England (Chapter: A Sculptor's Life in the Past Century ) London 1869, p. 29ff.
• Austin Dobson : The Magazine of Art . "Little Roubiliac", London 1894, vol. 17, pp. 202-231
• John Thomas Smith ( Edmund Gosse ): Nollekens and his Times . Richard Bentley & Son, London 1895, p. 1ff (see here )

Web links

Commons : Louis-François Roubiliac  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Roubiliac's Handel statue . In: Sculpture . Victoria and Albert Museum . Retrieved September 1, 2007.

• Memorial to Sir Joseph and Lady Elizabeth Nightingale (Westminster Abbey) . In: Sculpture . Retrieved July 23, 2008.