Alexander Pope (1688-1744), aged 52
Louis-François Roubiliac (Lyon 1702 – London 1762)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1740 (incised)
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
457 mm (18 in) (Height)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Hughenden, Buckinghamshire
NT 429105
Summary
Plaster sculpture on rectangular socle, Alexander Pope (1688-1744), aged 52 by Louis-François Roubiliac (Lyons 1695 – London 1762), incised on base: '[Scilicet] uni aequus virtuti atque ejus amicis' [Horace on Lucilius; agreeable with virtues and its friends] and on back 'A.Pope aeis 52 L.F. Roubiliac scit ad vivum 1740'. A portrait bust of Alexander Pope, head turned slightly to his left. Roubiliac was a sculptor, born in Lyons and in trained Paris at the Académie Royale. He moved to London in 1731 and was married in 1735. In 1738, he achieved reputation with statue of Handel. The first major monument commission he recieved was in 1744 for the memorial to Bishop Hough in Worcester Cathedral. Through his career, he helped to develop both the monument and the bust.
Marks and inscriptions
Incised on base 'Uni aequus virtuti atque ejus amicis' and on back 'A.Pope aeis 52L.F. Roubiliac scit ad vivum 1740'
Makers and roles
Louis-François Roubiliac (Lyon 1702 – London 1762), sculptor
References
Beresford Chancellor 1911 E. Beresford Chancellor, The Lives of the British Sculptors, and those who have worked in England from the earliest days to Sir Francis Chantrey, London, 1911 Esdaile 1928 K. A. Esdaile, The Life and Works of Louis François Roubiliac, Oxford and London, 1928