About this 3D model

Chesterfield was a shrewd politician, noted for his fine oratory (which he modelled on his beloved Cicero), a caustic and untiring opponent of SIr Robert Walpoe, and an enlightened Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A patron of literature who offended Dr Johnson, Chesterfield was an ardent Francophile and an intimate friend of the philosopher Montesquieu as erll as Alexander Pope. An urbane man iof the world, his stoic philosophy of lige and belief in the cultivation of the graces are enshrined in the celebrated Letters to his Son, publiched after his death. This sculpture is by Louis Francois Roubiliac (1702-62)