Bust of a youth
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
marble
Measurements
510 x Height 230 Width x 200 mm Depth
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486425
Summary
A marble bust of a youth with tight curly hair, possibly Lord Byron.
Provenance
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.