Unknown artist, Bust of a Man, ca. 1640 or mid-19th century
- Title:
- Bust of a Man
- Former Title(s):
- Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey
- Date:
- ca. 1640 or mid-19th century
- Materials & Techniques:
- Bronze, with traces of gilding (on marble base)
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 27 1/2 x 24 x 12 inches (69.9 x 61 x 30.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.36
- Classification:
- Sculptures
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Subject Terms:
- armor | bald | man | portrait
- Access:
- Not on view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1481
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The subject of this rare bronze bust has been identified, on the basis of close comparison with a portrait by Cornelius Jonson, as the royalist naval and army officer Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (1582-1642). Lindsey was one of Charles I's loyalist privy councilors. In 1628, he witnessed the assassination of Charles's favorite, the Duke of Buckingham, and afterwards interrogated the duke's assassin, John Felton. In the civil war, Lord Lindsey was one of Charles's senior generals, and was killed at the Battle of Edgehill. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005
Ellis Waterhouse, Sculpture from the Paul Mellon Collection at the British Art Center at Yale, Burlington Magazine, vol. 119, May 1977, p. 351, fig. 51, N1 +B87 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
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