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English: Bust of Robert Boyle, by Giovanni Battista Guelfi, in the collection of the Royal Society of Chemistry, at it's Burlington House, London, headquarters.
Acquired by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003 from the Chelminski Gallery, this veined white marble bust was originally commissioned in 1731 from the Italian sculptor Giovanni Battista Guelfi (1690–1736)[1] by Lord Burlington, a relative of Boyle's, for Burlington House, which was then the earl's residence in London.[2] This work, originally displayed at Lord Burlington's Palladian villa, Chiswick House, is virtually identical to that commissioned by Queen Caroline for her grotto at Richmond in 1732–3.[3][4][5] The latter survives in the Royal Collection at Kensington Palace and has long been well-known. However, this other version of Guelfi's bust had hitherto been entirely unknown to Boyle scholars.[6] |
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- ↑ (1955). "Giovanni Battista Guelfi: an Italian Sculptor working in England". The Burlington Magazine 97 (626).
- ↑ (1999). "Giovanni Battista Guelfi: New Discoveries". The Sculpture Journal 3: 26–43.
- ↑ (1733). "Poetical Essays". The Gentleman's Magazine 3 (April): 28.
- ↑ (2008). "Five busts for Queen Caroline's Hermitage in Richmond". Sculpture Journal 17 (1): 83–88. DOI:10.3828/sj.17.1.7.
- ↑ (1969) Life of the Honorable Robert Boyle, London: Taylor & Francis, pp. 196–202
- ↑ Newly Discovered Bust of Boyle. Birkbeck Library.
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