19th Century Pair of Italian Marble Busts Depicting Two Children

19th century pair of bronze figural sculptures in the manner of Franz Xavier Messerschmidt (1736 – 1793), two character heads depictin...

18th Century Italian Marble Bust of Caesar Augustus. His draped robe is hand-carved in red rosso levanto marble with the face modelled in contrasting white Carrara marble. The piece ...

19th Century Marble Bust of Antinous after the original known as the 'Antinous Vaticano' discovered at Hadrian's Villa. Featuring realistic detail to hair and handsome facial features...

A Georgian profile portrait of a gentleman carved from Pentalic marble. Possibly 'The Old Pretender', cousin of the Duke of Cumberland, House of Stewart.

Pair of marble baby busts, Italy, circa 1890.

A charming pair of Italian 19th century white Carrara marble bust of young Bacchus. Each bust is raised by circular socle pedestals. With wonderful smiling expressions and a crown of...

Pair of carved marble busts on stands by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Fazzi Italian, 1889 Measures: Bust with fruit: Height 74cm, wi...

A fine pair of George III statuary marble busts of a boy and a girl by John de Vaere (1755 – 1830), 1798. Signed J DE-VAERE Sculpr. 1798. Considering what a sensitive and accomplished sculptor he was, surprisingly little is known about John de Vaere. Born in France in 1755, he settled in England some time before 1786 when he enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1787 he left to study in Rome, with the financial assistance of Josiah Wedgwood. In Rome he won a Silver Medal for Sculpture from the Pope and became an assistant to John Flaxman. On his return to England in 1790, he worked as a modeler for Wedgwood until the latter’s death in 1795, after which he worked with Eleanor Coade, probably replacing John Bacon...