Lord John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth, PC, MP (1696-1743)
Edmé Bouchardon (Chaumont 1698 – Paris 1762)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1729 (inscribed and dated)
Materials
Terracotta
Measurements
700 x 460 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 852228
Summary
Sculpture, terracotta on white marble plinth, Lord John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth, PC, MP (1696-1743) by Edmé Bouchardon (Chaumont 1698 – Paris 1762).
Provenance
Commissioned by Lord John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey of Ickworth (1693-1743) or by Stephen Fox, later Fox Strangeways, 1st Earl of Ilchester (1704-1776); executed in Rome 1729; by descent though the Hervey family; acquired by the National Trust in 1956 as part of the Bristol Collection under the auspices of the National Land Fund, later the National Heritage Memorial Fund.
Marks and inscriptions
JOHN L HERVEY | BY BOUCHARDON | AT ROME 1729
Makers and roles
Edmé Bouchardon (Chaumont 1698 – Paris 1762), sculptor
References
Edmé Bouchardon: 1698-1762, une idée du beau (Ed. Somogy), musée du Louvre, Paris, 14 Septembre- 5 Décembre 2016, pp. 124-125 Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, exh cat. (eds. E. P. Bowron and J. J. Rishel), Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 16-May 28, 2000 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 25-September 17, 2000, p. 230 Baker, Harrison and Laing 2000, Malcom Baker, Colin Harrison and Alastair Laing, 'Bouchardon's British sitters: sculptural portraiture in Rome and the classicising bust around 1730', The Burlington Magazine, December 2000, no 1173, vol. CXLII, pp. 752-62 Halsband 1973 Robert Halsband, Lord Hervey: Eighteenth Century Courtier, Oxford, Clarendon Press1973, p. 82