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Giovanni Battista Guelphi

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Memorial to Thomas Watson Wentworth in York Minster
Bust of Robert Boyle by Giovanni Battista Guelfi; Royal Society of Chemistry

Giovanni Battista Guelphi or Guelfi (1690–1736) was an Italian sculptor who worked in England in the early 18th century.

Life

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He was born in Italy in the late 17th century.

He trained under sculptor Camillo Rusconi in Rome and in 1714 was invited by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington to move to England, where he restored the Arundel marbles and executed several portrait busts and monuments.[1]

He left England in 1734 and sailed home to Italy where he settled in Bologna, dying there in 1736.[2]

List of works

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Further reading

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  • di Cristiano Giometti, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 60 (2003), GUELFI, Giovanni Battista[1]

References

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  1. ^ Webb, M.I. (1955). "Giovanni Battista Guelfi: an Italian Sculptor working in England". The Burlington Magazine. 97 (626)
  2. ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.183
  3. ^ "Poetical Essays". The Gentleman's Magazine. 3 (April): 28. 1733.
  4. ^ Balderston, Gordon (2008). "Five busts for Queen Caroline's Hermitage in Richmond". Sculpture Journal. 17 (1): 83–88. doi:10.3828/sj.17.1.7.
  5. ^ Maddison, R.E.W. (1969). Life of the Honorable Robert Boyle. London: Taylor & Francis. pp. 196–202.
  6. ^ "Newly Discovered Bust of Boyle". Birkbeck Library.
  7. ^ "Anne, Duchess of Richmond". V&A Collections. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  8. ^ "Church of St Peter". Historic England. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  9. ^ Giovanni Battista Guelphi: An Italian Sculptor Working in England by M I Webb 1955