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ID: 500017615
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500017615
 
Record Type: Person
Roubiliac, Louis François (English sculptor, 1695-1762)

Note: Roubiliac was one of the most accomplished and innovative sculptors active in England in the mid-18th century, making an major contribution to the formation of the English Rococo style. He is noted for his dramatic funerary monuments and insightful portrait busts, which demonstrate his adeptness with both marble and terracotta. French sculptor. Comment on works: Portraits; sculptor

Names:
Roubiliac, Louis François (preferred,V,index)
Louis François Roubiliac (V,display)
Roubilliac, Louis François (V)
Louis François Roubillac (V)
Louis François Roubilliac (V)
Roubiliac, Louis Francois (V,Dutch-P,NA)
Roubillac, Louis François (V)
Louis Francois Roubiliac (V)
Roubiliac, Louis-François (V)
[Mr. L.F. Roubilliac] (LU,U)
Roubiliac (LU,U)
Roubilliac (LU,U)
Rubilliac (LU,U)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English
French

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
painter
portraitist
architect

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Lyon (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) (inhabited place)
Died:  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   by 1735  London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
baptism:   1702  Lyon (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) (inhabited place)
active:   Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
apprentice of ....  Cheere, Henry  
........................  (English sculptor, 1703-1781) [500115359]
apprentice was ....  Smith, Nathaniel  
..........................  (British sculptor, miniaturist, and print dealer, 1740/1741-after 1800) [500002699]
student of ....  Permoser, Balthasar  in Dresden
..................  (German sculptor, 1651-1732) [500006029]
teacher of ....  Tassaert, Jean-Pierre-Antoine  
..................  (Flemish sculptor, 1727-1788) [500054963]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Roubiliac, Louis François (I)

Biographies:
(English sculptor, 1695-1762) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist 1702-1762) ..... [GRL]
(French painter, 1695?-1762) ..... [PROV]
(1695-1762) ..... [AVERY]
(French artist, 1702-1762) ..... [WCP]
(French sculptor, 1695-1762) ..... [BHA]
(French sculptor, 1695?-1762) ..... [GRLPA]
(French artist, 1702-1762) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(architect, 1695-1762) ..... [AVERY]
(French sculptor, 1702-1762) ..... [AVERY]
(French sculptor) ..... [AVERY]
(French sculptor) ..... [AVERY]
(English sculptor, 1702-1762) ..... [Grove Art]
(French artist, 1702-1762) ..... [PROV]
(French sculptor, 1702-1762) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Louis Francois Roubiliac ........ [PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.................................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
.................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.................................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Louis François Roubiliac ........ [AVERY, VP]
.................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Louis François Roubillac ........ [VP]
.................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Louis François Roubilliac ........ [VP]
...................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
[Mr. L.F. Roubilliac] ........ [PROV]
............................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Roubiliac ........ [PROV]
.....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Roubiliac, Louis François ........ [AVERY Preferred, GRL Preferred, PROV Preferred, VP Preferred]
...................................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...................................................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
...................................................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
...................................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 95044462
...................................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Roubiliac, Louis Francois ........ [RKD Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
...................................................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
...................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 68520
...................................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Roubiliac, Louis-François ........ [Grove Art Preferred, VP]
.....................................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
.....................................................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 15 February 2005
Roubillac, Louis François ........ [AVERY, BHA Preferred, GRL, VP]
...................................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
...................................................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
Roubilliac ........ [PROV]
.......................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Roubilliac, Louis François ........ [AVERY, GRL, GRLPA Preferred, VP]
.....................................................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
.....................................................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
.....................................................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
Rubilliac ........ [PROV]
.....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, BHA, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, PROV, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006)
....................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
....................  Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1963-)
....................  Bellier and Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes (1979)
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................  Bindman and Baker, Roubiliac (1995)
....................  Breuille, Dictionnaire de la sculpture (1992)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  GRI Library, author records (1998-)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 17 August 2005; accessed 15 February 2005
....................  Hoefer, Nouvelle biographie générale (1963-1969)
....................  Lami, Sculpteurs de l'École français au 18e siècle (1970)
....................  Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel (1982)
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 95044462
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 68520
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q1284603
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, PROV, VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 17 August 2005
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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