A 19th century sculpted white marble bust of a gentleman, his head to sinister, the shoulders draped to the truncation, signed and dated P. HOLLINS, MDCCCXXIX -- 22in. high.

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A 19th century sculpted white marble bust of a gentleman, his head to sinister, the shoulders draped to the truncation, signed and dated P. HOLLINS, MDCCCXXIX -- 22in. high.

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Peter Hollins, 1800 - 1886, as a young man left his native Birmingham to study in London under Chantrey and, at his best, was compared very favourably with his mentor. Perhaps Hollins's most celebrated work is the monument to Lady Bradford, executed in 1842, at Weston, in Shropshire.

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