  About the Artwork
  
  
  This life-size bust is a lively and informal characterization of Roubiliac's friend, the English architect Isaac Ware (ca. 1707–66). Ware's costume, especially the soft cap, loosely fitting jacket with frog closures, and the open linen shirt, is in the style worn by artists and virtuosi of the 1730s and 1740s. A French émigré trained in Dresden and Paris, Roubiliac executed a series of marble and terracotta busts of eminent artists and scholars in London, including the painters William Hogarth and Francis Hayman, the composer George Frideric Handel, the poet and satirist Alexander Pope, and the scientist Sir Isaac Newton.
The well-known architect Isaac Ware published The Complete Book of Architecture (1735) and a translation of Andrea Palladio's Renaissance treatise The Four Books of Architecture (1738), and was purveyor of His Majesty's Works from 1741, the approximate date of this portrait.
  
  
  Title
  Bust of Isaac Ware
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. 1741
  
  Artist
  Louis Francois Roubiliac
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1702-1762
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  English
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Marble
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 25 3/4 × 18 × 9 5/8 inches (65.4 × 45.7 × 24.4 cm)
  Mount (pedestal): 49 7/16 × 16 3/4 × 16 3/4 inches (125.6 × 42.5 × 42.5 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, Henry Ford II Fund, New Endowment Fund, with funds from A. Alfred Taubman
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1987.75
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
