Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Portraits in Relief - Eighteenth Century

David Le Marchand
Mary Voyce
ca. 1712
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Carl August von Lücke
Portrait Medallion of a Gentleman
ca. 1730
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous Russian Artist
Anna Ivanovna, Empress of Russia
ca. 1730-40
gold medallion set in enamelled gold with diamonds
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Gaspar van der Hagen
Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
(eldest daughter of George II)
ca. 1735
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

attributed to Gaspar van der Hagen
Hamlet Winstanley
1740
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Giovanni Pichler
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
ca. 1760
onyx cameo
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Anonymous Russian Artist
Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich
nd Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna

(Count and Countess of the North)
ca. 1776-77
ivory
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

from Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name,
What once had beauty, titles, wealth, and fame.
How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not,
To whom related, or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee,
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

– Alexander Pope (1717)

John Flaxman
A Child
(said to be Artist's four-year-old sister Mary Ann)
1772
wax
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

John Flaxman
Self Portrait
1778
terracotta
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Josiah Wedgwood and Sons
George Washington
1779
jasperware
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Nathaniel Marchant
Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton
ca. 1786-87
chalcedony cameo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Philippe-Laurent Roland
Louis XVI, King of France
1787
marble
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Benjamin Duvivier
Louis XVI as Protector of the French Revolution
1789
bronze medallion
British Museum

Imperial Glass Factory, Russia
Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich
1794
glass medallion mounted on bronze
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Doccia Manufactory, Florence
Ercole III, Duke of Modena
1797
porcelain
British Museum