A plaster bust of a Victorian gentleman by Boehm

This plaster bust of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington is a replica of the original marble portrait bust, commissioned, in 1852, by the Duke’s heir for Stratfield Saye, Hampsh...

A Victorian white painted terracotta bust of a young woman, wearing a draped shawl over a bodice with a lace trim, her hair elaborately coiffed with a broad plait and multiple ringle...

A fine bronze bust of ‘Dougie’ by Vivian Mallock depicting the head and smiling face of a Vincentian calypso singer with a dark patination becoming lighter at the end of his dreadloc...

A white Parianware bust of the Duke of Wellington by E W Wyon, the Duke is shown in classical draperies looking slightly to the left, the reverse impressed ‘E.W. Wyon & F,.  English,...

A marble and Ormolu bust by Marionnet, showing the white marble head and shoulders of a girl with her hair in a bun and ringlets framing her face, wi...

A charming bust of a child’s head by Edwin Whitney-Smith, dated 1910, the girl has her head slightly tilted forwards as she looks out from under a lock of hair, set on a square block signed on the reverse ‘E Whitney-Smith 1910’. This bronze is a reduction of Whitney-Smith’s original marble piece, a photograph of which survives in the V&A (object number AAD/1990/12/63). Another version can be seen in a 1920s photograph of the artist in his studio owned by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG x194201). Neither the identity of the sitter nor title of the work is known. Edwin Whitney-Smith (1880-1952) was one of the pre-eminent sculptors of his day. Born in Bristol in 1880, he became a student of William Harbutt, the headmaster of Bath School of Art, best remembered today for inventing plasticine. Whitney-Smith showed great promise from an early age, opening a studio in St John’s Wood, London, in 1910. He exhibited over 40 pieces at the Royal Academy and despite not achieving Academician status, even with list of illustrious proposers, he became a dear friend of Sir Alfred Munnings, the famous horse painter, and sculpted his portrait. He was, however, elected to the Royal Society of British Sculptors and his works were generally well-received by critics and the general public alike. Aside from the RA, he exhibited in Bristol, at the Paris Salon and the Scottish Academy and his work attracted the attention of such important patrons as the Courtauld family. One of his most famous works, The Waking Child, is in the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull and another, The Irishman, is in the Tate. One version of his bust of Ernest Bevin, the trade unionist, stands in Tooley Street in Bermondsey to this day. An article in The Sphere, published on the 3rd of May 1924, referred to the sculptor as “a well-known sculptor of smiling children” and mentioned his “famous babies’ heads”.

A Plaster Cast French Bust of a Gentleman

This detailed solid lead sculpture by Charles Watson, 1974, is an impressive bust of a gentleman situated on a walnut plinth. The figure is strikingly imposing as an impressive figure.

This stately patinated bronze bust is a late 19th century figure of a gentleman presented with a classical drape.

A large plaster Head of Hercules connected to a rectangular base. This is a nice start for a person looking to build a collection or looking for decorative items for there home / ...

Marianne is the embodiment of the French Republic. Marianne represents the permanent values that found her citizens' attachment to the Republic: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".

Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the pos...