The Capitoline Antinous
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1729 - 1787
Materials
Lead and Stone
Measurements
1750 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872424.4
Summary
Lead sculpture, The Capitoline Antinous by John Cheere (1709 – London 1787). Statue, one of a set of four leaden life-size statues in alcoves on the west front of the house. Antinous (d. 122 AD), nude, on a square stone plinth. The original statue is in the Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not documented, but at Saltram by c.1760 and thence by descent to Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and accepted by H.M. Treasury from his Executors as part of the fabric of Saltram House in part payment of death duties and transferred to NT in 1957.
Makers and roles
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787), sculptor
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 5