ITALIAN, FLORENCE OR ROME, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The present bronze is an almost identical cast to a bronze bust of a philosopher purchased by Sir William FitzHerbert, 1st Baronet (1748-1791) on his Grand Tour of 1568-1569 for his ancestral home Tissington Hall in Derbyshire (London, San Marino and Minneapolis, Wallace Collection, Huntington Art Collections and Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection, 29 April 2010 - 15 May 2011, J. Warren ed., p. 262, fig. 1).