AN ENGLISH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, by Benjamin Spence,shown looking straight ahead, his hair curling at the temples and with long side-burns, signed B. E. SPENCE. FT. ROMA, mid 19th Century

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AN ENGLISH WHITE MARBLE BUST OF A GENTLEMAN, by Benjamin Spence,shown looking straight ahead, his hair curling at the temples and with long side-burns, signed B. E. SPENCE. FT. ROMA, mid 19th Century
24½in. (62cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
R. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, London, 1951, pp. 362-3

Lot Essay

The present portrait bust by Benjamin Edward Spence (1822-1866) is a fine example of the sculptor's portraiture and skill in carving marble. Executed in a Neo-Classical style, it reveals the influence of an earlier generation of sculptors working in Rome. The sitter would have been an English gentleman on the Grand Tour, who would have sat for Spence in his Roman studio. See previous Lot.

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