Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.25
Classification:
Sculptures
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
man | portrait
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 247, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)British Art at Yale, Apollo, v.105, April 1977, p. 233, fig. 3, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)Alan Phipps Darr, Virtuoso carvings, Three Eigtheenth-century British portrait sculptures by Le Marchand, Roubiliac, and Chaffers , Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 83, 2009, pp. 40-49, V 2189 (YCBA)Ingrid Roscoe, A biographical dictionary of sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009, pp. 1063, 1067, no. 84, NB496 B56 2009 (YCBA) (Wall Shelf 3) Yale electronic resource also available online: OrbisEllis Waterhouse, Sculpture from the Paul Mellon Collection at the British Art Center at Yale, Burlington Magazine, vol. 119, May 1977, p. 351, fig. 54, N1 +B87 Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Louis François Roubiliac was born in Lyons, France, and after training in the Paris Académie he moved to London in 1731. He first made a living subcontracting for other sculptors but soon established a reputation for portrait busts. His clientele was mostly of the middling sort: professionals, writers, artists, and designers, including artists associated with the St. Martin’s Lane Academy. This dynamic and finely modeled terracotta bust represents the painter Francis Hayman, captured informally, wearing an open shirt and a cap. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016