Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope
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Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope
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Published 2017-04-12T16:50:26+00:00
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Chesterfield was a shrewd politician, noted for his fine oratory (which he modelled on his beloved Cicero), a caustic and untiring opponent of SIr Robert Walpoe, and an enlightened Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A patron of literature who offended Dr Johnson, Chesterfield was an ardent Francophile and an intimate friend of the philosopher Montesquieu as erll as Alexander Pope. An urbane man iof the world, his stoic philosophy of lige and belief in the cultivation of the graces are enshrined in the celebrated Letters to his Son, publiched after his death.
This sculpture is by Louis Francois Roubiliac (1702-62)
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| Date published | 12/04/2017 |
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| Title | Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope 4th Earl of Chesterfiled |
| Date | 1770 c. |
| Dimension | Life-size |
| Accession | 5829 |
| Period | Neoclassicism |
| Medium | Marble |
| Credit | Purchased with help from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the art Fund and the Pilgrim trust in 1985. |
| Artist | Louis-Francois Roubiliac |
| Place | National Portrait Gallery |
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