Male Portrait Head
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Parian marble
Measurements
680 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486381
Summary
Male marble portrait head of Republican type, possibly first century AD copy of Republican original (bust modern). The head is that of an elderly man, slightly inclined to the left. Rough Parian marble.
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
75 (painted on front of socle)