page_title: List of public art in Mayfair
section_title: 6 Burlington Gardens
hierarchical_section_title: List of public art in Mayfair / 6 Burlington Gardens
caption_attribution_description: English: Royal Academy of Arts, London Deutsch: Royal Academy of Arts, London
context_page_description: This is a list of public art in Mayfair, a district in the City of Westminster, London.
  Mayfair is a residential and commercial area dominated by terraces of town houses. In Grosvenor Square there are several memorials with an American theme, including a memorial garden commemorating the September 11 attacks, due to the former presence on that square of the US Embassy. At the southern end of the district, the courtyard of Burlington House on Piccadilly is frequently used as a temporary exhibition space for artworks.
context_section_description: 6 Burlington Gardens, a Grade II*-listed building now used by the Royal Academy, was designed by James Pennethorne in 1866–67 for the University of London. In 1868 the university's Senate proposed the subjects of the 22 statues for the façade: Isaac Newton to represent Science, Jeremy Bentham for Law, John Milton for the Arts and William Harvey for Medicine; Galen, Cicero, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes and Tribonian (the last of whom was replaced in the final scheme by Justinian) as representatives of "ancient culture", and the "illustrious foreigners" Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Georges Cuvier, Carl Linnaeus, Galileo Galilei, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Finally, Adam Smith, John Locke, Francis Bacon, John Hunter, William Shakespeare (replaced by David Hume) and John Dalton (replaced by Humphry Davy) were included as "English worthies" (although Smith, Hunter and Hume were Scottish). Shakespeare was substituted as his achievement was felt to be "independent of academic influence"; he was instead commemorated with a statue apart, inside the building.
caption: 6 Burlington Gardens
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