Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield - San Marino, CA
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N 34° 07.733 W 118° 06.776
11S E 397376 N 3777005
This bust is located in the Huntington Art Gallery.
Waymark Code: WMR1P9
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/28/2016
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This life-sized 1742 marble bust of Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield depicts him in classic Roman style. He has a short Roman haircut and wears a toga. He appears thin and middle-aged. The artist is Peter Scheemakers.
Wikipedia (
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"Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG PC (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to become acquainted with his aristocratic counterparts and the polite society of Continental Europe.
In the course of his post-graduate tour of Europe, the death of Queen Anne (r. 1702–1707) and the accession of King George I (r. 1714–1727) opened a political career for Stanhope, and he returned to England. In the British political spectrum he was a Whig and entered government service, as a courtier to the King, through the mentorship of his relative, James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, the King's favourite minister, who procured his appointment as Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales."