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was one of the work's many admirers; it showed, he thought, "the greatness of his genius in his invention, design and execution, in every part equal, if not superior, to any others" outshining "for nobleness and skill all those before done by the best sculptors this fifty years past" The mourning
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in Lyon on 31 August 1702. Although the priest has misspelled the surname as 'Robillard', the father signs 'Roubilliac' distinctly. Checked on the digitised Parish
Registers of Saint-Nizier for 1702 on the Archives municipales de Lyon website. When Louis François's father Pierre married, on 20
282:, trained to appreciate svelte line and idealised refinements of nature, did not favour Roubiliac's vigour and immediacy: to J.T. Smith the legs of the figure of Hercules, supporting the bust of Sir Peter Warren in Roubiliac's monument in Westminster Abbey (1753), seemed "copied from a
659:(1747) was admired in 1753 by Horace Walpole, who found its fully "in the Westminster Abbey style"; "it has a dramatic unity of action unknown in the work of Rysbrack, Scheemakers, or Cheere," Margaret Whinney has observed. (Whinney 1981:203).
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Chelsea porcelain many modelled by Louis François Roubiliac (circa 1755–1760) in the collection of Henry Edwards Huntington at San Marino, California
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to ornament a marble chimneypiece in Hudson's house in Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. For his friend
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