Preliminary drawings for busts and statues by Sir Francis Chantrey, circa 1807-40
203 Portraits in set
202 drawings on paper, profile and full-face, made with a device that the artist called a 'camera lucida', with which he traced the outlines of the head on to a sheet of paper. The 'camera lucida' was a wooden machine which kept the head of the sitter still whilst the artist drew the profile and front face at life size. They served as preliminary studies for clay models made by Chantrey's studio assistants and completed by the artist himself. They were usually realised at several informal sessions beginning with breakfast and accompanied by friends to ensure that conversation would keep the sitter animated. The clay models were then transferred to plaster casts and finally to marble busts.
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
ink and pencil, circa 1810
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1814
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil and brown ink, 1815
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1815
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1815-1816
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1815
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1816
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Unknown man, formerly known as Sir Joseph Banks, Bt
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1816-1818
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Louisa Jane (née Russell), Duchess of Abercorn
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1817
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Louisa Jane (née Russell), Duchess of Abercorn
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1817
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1817
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1817
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Sir Archibald MacDonald, 1st Bt
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, pen and ink, 1817
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Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles
by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1817
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1817
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1817
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1817
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1818
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, circa 1818
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by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
pencil, 1818
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