John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1720), Peter Tillemans, 1727
- Title:
- Peter Tillemans
- Former Title(s):
- Bust of a Man, Probably Pieter Tillemans
- Date:
- 1727
- Materials & Techniques:
- Terracotta
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 27 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 8 3/4 inches, 73.5 lb. (69.9 × 47 × 22.2 cm, 33.3 kg), Base or socle: 6 inches (15.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Incised on back of bust: "Mel/ Rysbrack f. 1727"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, partial Gift of Cyril Humphris
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.35
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- man | portrait
- Associated People:
- Tillemans, Peter (c. 1684–1734), painter and draughtsman
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1480
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
When John Michael Rysbrack arrived in London from Antwerp he was particularly admired as a modeler, and his early reputation was established by the quality of his terracotta models. This bust represents the fellow Flemish expatriate Peter Tillemans, a sporting and landscape painter. It was commissioned by a British patron, the cleric and collector Dr. Cox Macro, a loyal client of both Tillemans and Rysbrack. Upon Tillemans’s death, Macro commissioned a self-portrait from Rysbrack, also in terracotta, making them a pair (the self-portrait is now at Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands). This bust of Tillemans was originally displayed in a special niche at the top of the stairs in Macro’s country seat, Little Haugh Hall in Suffolk. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016
Malcolm Baker, The marble index : Roubiliac and sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2014, pp. 83, 84, 85, 163-64, 182, NB466 .B355 2014 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.