John Michael Rysbrack, 1694–1770, Flemish, active in Britain (from 1720)
Title:
Peter 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)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, partial Gift of Cyril Humphris
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.35
Gallery Label:
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
