Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Maker Peter Scheemakers (Flemish, baptized 1691, died 1781)

ClassificationsSCULPTURE

Date1742

Mediummarble

Dimensionsheight: 25 in. (63.5 cm.)

DescriptionThis bust portrays Philip Stanhope (1694–1773), a British statesman, diplomat, and wit.

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

On view

Label TextThis is one of the nine busts that Richard Grenville (1675–1749) commissioned of various sculptors around 1740 to decorate the Temple of Friendship at his country house of Stowe in Buckinghamshire. The structure was badly damaged by fire in 1840 and the busts were sold in 1848. Stanhope wears a medal depicting St. George, England's patron saint, that represents the knighthood he received in 1730.

Object number92.6

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