The present bust is clearly a portrait of a particular individual in the guise of a Roman emperor, and may represent Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Earl Strafford (1672-1739), who was a diplomatist and was present at the Siege of Namur. It is related in style to the early work of Peter Scheemakers, and may be compared with his bust of Viscount Cobham of c.1733 in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Whinney, op. cit., p. 187, fig. 128). The age of the subject of the present bust is not compatible with an attribution to Scheemakers at this period.