Louis Francois Roubiliac making a sculpture of Shakespeare Size:S: 36 x 28cm In the foreground figures are

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Louis Francois Roubiliac making a sculpture of Shakespeare Size:S: 36 x 28cm In the foreground figures areLouis Francois Roubiliac making a sculpture of Shakespeare, c1765, (1920s). Roubiliac is shown finishing the terracotta model on which the marble was based. The sculptor was commissioned by David Garrick, the greatest actor of his day, to sculpt a full length marble portrait of Shakespeare. It was finished in 1758, and set up in the 'Temple of Shakespeare' that Garrick had built in the garden of his villa at Hampton. Illustration from Story of the