Portrait of an Antonine Prince
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
530 x 345 x 210 mm; 180 mm (Height); 70 mm (Height)
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Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486348
Summary
Marble, Head of a Young Prince of about six years of age with thick curly hair. The head is turned slighty to the right and looks in that direction with an enquiring expression.
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
42 (painted on front of socle)