Sculpture bust of Joseph Banks
Date
1818-1819
Sitter
Joseph Banks (1743 - 1820, British) , Botanist
Creator
Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781 - 1841, British) , Sculptor
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (sculpture): 533mm
width (sculpture): 350mm
depth (sculpture): mm
width (sculpture): 350mm
depth (sculpture): mm
Subject
Description
Bust of Joseph Banks with head in turned in three-quarter profile to the right as viewed. In classical style with partial draped shoulders.
Inscribed on the back ‘THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS BART. PRESENTED TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY FRANCIS CHANTREY SCULP. 1819.’
Sir Joseph Banks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766, he served as its President from 1778 to 1820.
Inscribed on the back ‘THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR JOSEPH BANKS BART. PRESENTED TO THE ROYAL SOCIETY BY FRANCIS CHANTREY SCULP. 1819.’
Sir Joseph Banks was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1766, he served as its President from 1778 to 1820.
Object history
Provenance: Presented by the artist, 1819.
The donation is recorded with an inscription on the back of the bust, it is first mentioned in the Royal Society's Council Minutes on 8 July 1819, ‘Ordered that a committee be appointed for placing the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Joseph Banks in the Meeting Room – and that the former Bust be cleaned by Mr. Chantrey.’ CMO/9/85, page 205.
Cast and copies: One of four versions of Banks by Chantrey, as recorded in the Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851 by Ingrid Roscoe , Emma Hardy and M G Sullivan, online database published by the Paul Mellon Centre and Henry Moore Foundation.
The donation is recorded with an inscription on the back of the bust, it is first mentioned in the Royal Society's Council Minutes on 8 July 1819, ‘Ordered that a committee be appointed for placing the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Joseph Banks in the Meeting Room – and that the former Bust be cleaned by Mr. Chantrey.’ CMO/9/85, page 205.
Cast and copies: One of four versions of Banks by Chantrey, as recorded in the Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851 by Ingrid Roscoe , Emma Hardy and M G Sullivan, online database published by the Paul Mellon Centre and Henry Moore Foundation.