Emperor Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus (c.AD150-197)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
595 x 275 x 265 mm; 440 mm (Height); 310 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486343
Summary
Marble sculpture bust, Emperor Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus (c.AD 150-197). A portrait bust of a bearded man turned slightly to the right, with a broad face, high forehead, prominent eyes and thick curly hair.
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
37 (painted on front of socle)