Jean-Marie Nogaret Portrait Bust of a Young Woman 1802 terracotta Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
Jean-Antoine Houdon Napoleon Bonaparte ca. 1802 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Antonio Canova Franz I, Holy Roman Emperor 1805 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Anonymous Russian Artist Paul I, Emperor of Russia ca. 1800-1850 ivory Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Francis Legatt Chantrey Mr. Warp 1816 marble Tate Britain |
Edward Hodges Baily George Gordon, Lord Byron ca. 1810-30 marble Government Art Collection, London |
Edward Hodges Baily Henry Fuseli 1824 marble National Portrait Gallery, London |
François Carlo Antommarchi Death Mask of Napoleon Bonaparte modeled 1821, cast 1833 bronze Art Institute of Chicago |
from Canto XXXVI
Where memory liveth,
it takes its state
Formed like a diafan from light on shade
Which shadow cometh of Mars and remaineth
Created, having a name sensate,
Custom of the soul,
will from the heart;
Cometh from a seen form which being understood
Taketh locus and remaining in the intellect possible
Wherein hath he neither weight nor still-standing,
Descendeth not by quality but shineth out
Himself his own effect unendingly
Not in delight but in the being aware
Nor can he leave his true likeness otherwhere.
– Ezra Pound (1934)
Thomas Campbell Portrait Bust of a Lady in Classical Style 1823 marble Astley Cheetham Art Collection, Manchester |
John Gibson William Bewick ca. 1827-50 marble Tate Britain |
Samuel Joseph Posthumous Bust of King George IV 1831 marble Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
Jean-Pierre Dantan the Younger Portrait Bust of a Young Woman 1836 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Anonymous Swedish Artist Posthumous Bust of Christina, Queen of Sweden ca. 1830-50 ivory Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
François-Joseph Bosio Marie-Amélie, Queen of France 1841 marble Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Neville Northey Burnard The Right Honourable Charles Buller 1849 plaster National Trust, Carlyle's House, London |