John Michael Rysbrack (Antwerp 1694 – London 1770)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
145 x 95 mm
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 730961
Summary
Print, engraving, John Michael Rysbrack (Antwerp 1694 – London 1770). Engraving of the sculptor. This print appears to be a bust-length portrait, in reverse, after the full-length portrait by John Vanderbank in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG 1802) of 1728 or after the 1734 print of it by John Faber. Rysbrack (1694-1770) was born in Antwerp, and trained in the Netherlands, but spent his working life in Britain. He was one of the most important sculptors active in this country in the first half of the 18th century. In 1759 Henry Hoare II, called 'the Magificant' (1705-1785) commissioned the sculptor to carve two marble statues of Hercules and Flora for the Pantheon, a lakeside temple in his landscape garden at Stourhead.