Lot 108: JOSEPH  NOLLEKENS  (1737-1823)BRITISH,  1775

PROPERTY  FROM  A  PRIVATE  LONDON  LIBRARY  (LOTS  107-112)
BUST  OF  A  NOBLEMAN  WEARING  THE  STAR  OF  THE  ORDER  OF  BATH,  PROBABLY  THE  HON.  SIR  WILLIAM  STANHOPE,  KB
signed  and  dated:  Nollekens.  Fυt;  /  J775
marble
overall:  75cm.,  29½in.

London, Colnaghi, The British Face. A View of Portraiture 1625-1850, 1986;
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art

J. Kenworthy-Brown, The British Face. A View of Portraiture 1625-1850, exhib. cat. Colnaghi, London, 1986, pp. 128-129, no. 63; The Burlington Magazine, Colnaghi advert, August 1986, p. xii; I. Roscoe, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain. 1660-1851, New Haven and London, 2009, p. 906, no. 202

By repute Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield (1755-1815);
by descent to George Philip Cecil Arthur Stanhope, 7υth Earl of Chesterfield (1831-1871);
by descent to Lady Evelyn Stanhope (d. 1875);
by marriage Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4υth Earl of Carnarvon (1831-1890);
certainly, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5υth Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923);
his sale, London, Christie's, 3 June 1918, lot 192 ('A Nobleman');
London, Christie's, 3 April 1985, lot 71