Sculpture

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Type: Sculpture(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1742
Accession number: 92.6
Maker: Peter Scheemakers(Opens in new tab) (Flemish, 1691–1781)
Dimensions: height: 25 in. (63.5 cm.)
Medium: marble
Description: This bust portrays Philip Stanhope (1694–1773), a British statesman, diplomat, and wit.
Credit: The Huntington
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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This is one of the nine busts that Richard Grenville (1675–1749) commissioned of various sculptors around 1740 to decorate the Temple of Friendship at his country house of Stowe in Buckinghamshire. The structure was badly damaged by fire in 1840 and the busts were sold in 1848. Stanhope wears a medal depicting St. George, England's patron saint, that represents the knighthood he received in 1730.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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