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Creator:
unknown artist
after Hubert Le Sueur, 1610–1651
formerly Hubert Le Sueur, 1610–1651
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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