Bust of an Antonine Prince
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Luna marble
Measurements
160 x 295 x 195 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486369
Summary
A marble portrait bust of the middle Antonine period of an Antonine prince. He is represented with a broad forehead, round cheeks, a small pointed chin and tiny mouth. The hair is in heavy untidy curls. The bust is draped in a tunic and the cloak is fastened on the right shoulder.
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
63 (painted on front of bottom of bust)