Portrait Bust of a Man
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
100 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486340
Summary
Marble bust, possibly a Greek portrait of the Hadrianic period of a man with a short close beard, the head turned three-quarter profile to the left. The broad short face has high cheek bones, the hair grows low and is arranged over the forehead in loose curly locks and the beard is of tight curls with a moustache.
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
34 (painted on front of socle)