Emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 86-161)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Marble
Measurements
760 mm (Height)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486383
Summary
Portrait marble bust of the Emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 86-161) in early middle age. It is set on a Renaissance bust of coloured, architectural 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
77 (painted on front of socle)