Portrait Head of a Roman
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
660 x 317 x 270 mm; 480 mm (Height); 280 mm (Height); 190 mm (Width)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486344
Summary
Marble portrait of a man with his head turned to the left, and a square-shaped face with a high forehead and deep set eyes.
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
38 (painted on front of socle)