Portrait Bust of a Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Italian marble
Measurements
760 x 520 x 295 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486337
Summary
A portrait bust of the Antonine period of a man of about thirty years. The marble head is turned to the right and the gaze is directed upward. He has a short, closely trimmed beard which covers the lower part of the chin and his hair is short and curly.
Provenance
Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, thence by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72), arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M. Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
31 (painted on front of bottom of bust)