ID 990812
Lot 201 | ATTRIBUTED TO PETER SCHEEMAKERS (ANTWERP 1691-1781 ANTWERP), CIRCA 1740
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-1751)
marble bust; on a composite marble socle; the Lesser George inscribed '[H]ONI.SOIT.QUI.MAL.Y.[PENSE]'
22 7/8 in. (58 cm.) high; 27 1/4 in. (69 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
[Probably] Baron Augustus Schutz, Master of the Robes to King George II (1727-1757) who married Susan Bacon of Gillingham Hall, Norfolk and thence by descent to
John Bacon Schutz (1761-1847), Gillingham Hall, Norfolk;
thence by family descent at Gillingham Hall, Norfolk
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
I. Roscoe, Peter Scheemakers: The Famous Statuary, 1691-1781, exhibition catalogue, Leeds Art Gallery, October 1996 – January 1997.
D. Bilbey and M. Trusted, British Sculpture 1470-2000, exhibition catalogue, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2002, pp. 146-148.
I. Roscoe, E. Hardy and M. G. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, London, 2009, pp. 1098-1107.
J. Roberts, ed., Royal Treasures: A Golden Jubilee Celebration, exhibition catalogue, London, Queen’s Gallery, May 2002 – January 2003 p. 138, no. 67.
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