Robert Adam, Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Michael Rysbrack and the Hopetoun Chimneypiece

• Autores: Katharine Eustace
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 139, Nº 1136, 1997, págs. 743-752
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Since the publication of Michael Rysbrack's letters to his patron Sir Edward Littleton, it has been well known that he executed 'a Chimney Piece for the Earl of Hopetoun, near ten feet long, and six feet and near ten inches high, with Women, Thermes, cloathed with drapery; almost Round" - the chimneypiece in the Red Drawing Room at Hopetoun House near Edinburgh (Fig.21). It is the source of the design that has remained a matter of speculation,2 fuelled by the existence of a drawing (Fig.24), with a letter from Robert Adam, among the Hopetoun papers. This article assesses the arguments concerning the authorship of a design which was an important early catalyst in the evolution of Neo-classicism in England.