Lot 105: A BRONZED PLASTER BUST OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON

A BRONZED PLASTER BUST OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON >AFTER MICHAEL RYSBRACK (1694-1770), POSSIBLY CAST BY PETER VANNINI, SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY<br>On a later circular black painted wood socle and a George II grey painted pine pedestal, of tapering paneled form, the stepped top with foliate and cabochon mouldings and hung with acanthus swags on a foliate plinth, indistinctly inscribed in green paint CGT >23½ in. (59.7 cm.) high; 29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) high, overall; 72¾ in. (184.8 cm.) high, with the pedestal<br>

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: > M. I. Webb, Michael Rysbrack Sculptor, 1954, p. 199. > A. Dawson, Portrait Sculpture, A catalogue of the British Museum collection c.1675-1975, 1999, pp. 152-4, no. 58. > I. Roscoe et al, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, pp. 1310-1.

The pedestal purchased from Blairman, London.