page_title: Fitzwilliam Museum
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: Fitzwilliam Museum / Collection / Paintings
caption_attribution_description: English: James S De Ville 1776-1846 Head of William Blake - Plaster cast - Sept 1823 Fitzwilliam Museum Title: Head of William Blake (1757-1827) Maker(s) &amp; Production: De Ville, James S., maker, 1776-1846, plaster cast maker, England, London Category: sculpture Name: life mask Date: 1823 The life mask was taken on September 1823 Period(s): early 19th Century; George IV Description: Plaster cast, with shellac? coating. The neck rises from a circular base. In black tin trunk (A) with key (B) not accessioned Technique: casting (process); whole Material(s): plaster; whole shellac; surface; probably Technique Description: plaster cast, with shellac&#160;? coating Dimension(s): height, whole, 29.3, cm width, whole, 17.6, cm depth, whole, 22.2, cm Acquisition: given; 1947-07-18; Richmond, Lady Acquisition Credit: Given by Lady Richmond Exhibition(s): William Blake. 2000-11-09 - 2001-02-11 Organiser: Tate Britain Venue: Tate Gallery, London? Documentation: Keynes, Geoffrey. 1977. The Complete Portraiture of William and Catherine Blake.London?: p. 133-4 Publ. Hamlyn, Robin. Phillips, Michael. 2000. William Blake.London: p. 178 Publ. p. 178, no. 218, illustrated Piper, David. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Incarnation of William Blake. Source Title: Financial Times(30th-July-1987) Publ. Illustrated Accession: Object Number: M.7-1947 (Applied Arts) (record id: 77336; input: 2002-11-20; modified: 2012-10-19) (Picture Cabinet reference&#160;: 701691/) Permanent Identifier: http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77336
context_page_description: The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam, and comprises one of the best collections of antiquities and modern art in western Europe. With over half a million objects and artworks in its collections, the displays in the Museum explore world history and art from antiquity to the present. The treasures of the museum include artworks by Monet, Picasso, Rubens, Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Van Dyck, and Canaletto, as well as a winged bas-relief from Nimrud. Admission to the public is always free.
  The museum is a partner in the University of Cambridge Museums consortium, one of 16 Major Partner Museum services funded by Arts Council England to lead the development of the museums sector.
context_section_description: The museum has a wide collection of paintings and sketches, including works by Monet, Picasso, Rubens, Vincent van Gogh, Cézanne, Degas, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Canaletto, Constable, and Renoir. It also has extensive works by J. M. W. Turner, which has its origins in a set of 25 watercolour drawings donated to the university by John Ruskin in 1861. Sir Sydney Cockerell, who was serving as director of the museum at the time, acquired a further eight Turner watercolours and some of his writings.
  The museum's collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings includes a version of Ford Madox Brown's 1855 The Last of England, voted eighth-greatest painting in Britain in 2005's Radio 4 poll, the Greatest Painting in Britain Vote.
  Many items in the museum are on loan from colleges of the University of Cambridge, for example an important group of impressionist paintings owned by King's College, which includes Cézanne's The Abduction and a study for Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat. Many of the Fitzwilliam's paintings were donated by alumni and donors of the University of Cambridge, for instance, the economist Maynard Keynes donated his personal collection, including Cezanne's Still Life With Apples which he bought in 1918.
  Anglo-American
  Benjamin West – 2 paintings;
  John Constable – 12 paintings;
  John Hoppner – 1 painting;
  J. M. W. Turner – 1 painting
  Dutch School
  Aelbert Cuyp – 1 painting;
  Gerrit Dou – 3 paintings;
  Frans Hals – 1 painting;
  Meyndert Hobbema – 2 paintings;
  Adriaen van Ostade – 2 paintings;
  Rembrandt – 1 painting;
  Jacob van Ruisdael – 5 paintings;
  Salomon van Ruysdael – 1 painting;
  Jan Steen – 3 paintings;
  Adriaen van de Velde – 1 painting;
  Willem van de Velde the Younger – 1 painting;
  Jan Weenix – 1 painting;
  Philip Wouwerman – 2 paintings;
  English School
  William Beechey – 1 painting;
  William Blake – 4 paintings, and hundreds of watercolours, drawings, prints & manuscripts;
  John Constable – 12 paintings;
  Thomas Gainsborough – 8 paintings;
  William Hogarth – 9 paintings;
  John Hoppner – 1 painting;
  Sir Godfrey Kneller – 15 paintings;
  Edwin Henry Landseer – 1 painting;
  Thomas Lawrence – 1 painting;
  Peter Lely – 1 painting;
  Joshua Reynolds – 4 paintings;
  Joseph Stannard – 1 painting;
  George Stubbs – 3 paintings;
  J. M. W. Turner – 1 painting ("Welsh mountain landscape", 1799–1800);
  Flemish School
  Jan Brueghel the Elder – 5 paintings;
  Pieter Bruegel the Elder – 1 painting;
  Frans Francken the Younger – 1 painting;
  Jan Mabuse – 1 painting;
  Peter Paul Rubens – 14 paintings;
  David Teniers the Younger – 2 paintings;
  Anthony van Dyck – 5 paintings;
  French School
  Eugène Delacroix – 4 paintings;
  François Boucher – 1 painting;
  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – 3 paintings;
  Edgar Degas – 7 paintings;
  Gaspard Dughet – 3 paintings;
  Paul Gauguin – 1 painting;
  Claude Lorrain – 1 painting;
  Jean-Baptiste Greuze – 1 painting;
  Jean-Étienne Liotard – 2 paintings;
  Claude Monet – 4 paintings;
  Camille Pissarro –  6 paintings;
  Nicolas Poussin – 1 painting;
  Pierre-Auguste Renoir – 11 paintings;
  Théodore Rousseau – 3 paintings;
  Georges-Pierre Seurat – 1 painting;
  Jean-François de Troy – 1 painting;
  Vincent van Gogh – 1 painting
  German School
  Hans Holbein the Younger – 2 paintings;
  Italian School
  Alessandro Allori – 1 painting;
  Jacopo Bassano – 2 paintings;
  Canaletto – 6 paintings;
  Annibale and Ludovico Carracci – 4 paintings;
  Bernardo Daddi – 1 painting;
  Carlo Dolci – 3 painting;
  Domenichino – 1 painting;
  Duccio di Buoninsegna – 1 painting;
  Gentile da Fabriano – 1 painting;
  Domenico Fetti – 5 paintings;
  Raffaellino del Garbo – 1 painting;
  Lattanzio Gambara – 8 paintings;
  Luca Giordano – 12 paintings;
  Guercino – 1 painting;
  Pietro Longhi – 2 paintings;
  Lorenzo Lotto – 1 painting;
  Andrea Mantegna – 9 canvases known as The Triumphs of Caesar
  Parmigianino – 2 paintings and 30 drawings
  Palma il Vecchio – 2 paintings;
  Pietro Perugino – 1 painting;
  Giambattista Pittoni – 1 painting;
  Francesco Pesellino – 1 painting;
  Raphael – 8 Paintings;
  Raffaellino del Garbo – 1 painting;
  Guido Reni – 1 painting;
  Sebastiano Ricci – 9 paintings;
  Giulio Roman
caption: Life mask of William Blake; plaster cast by James De Ville (September 1823)
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