Pyke states that in 1727 there were four works in wax by Caterina de Julianis (fl. c. 1695-1742) in the place of bishop Emanuele Spinelli. In view of the correspondence of his surmane with that of the present sitter, who may have been an ancester of the 16th century (judging from the style of his armor), it is possibly that the bishop commissioned a series of portraits of his family, past and present, from the prominent wax modellere in Naples. Caterina de Julianis produced polychrome statues and whole scenes in relief for a number of churches in her native city, which there are several such works in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (see Pyke, op.cit. plts. 147-151).