Busts

From France, late 19th century, this red painted plaster bust was originally placed in an architectural niche. Depicting a female figure in a pose...

A fascinating 20th century painted plaster bust of Sam Heller from the collection of British make-up artist, Christopher Tucker. This is just one of many face casts and plaster bust...

A fascinating 20th century painted plaster bust of Keith Buterbaugh from the collection of British make-up artist, Christopher Tucker. Born in Alaska, Keith Buterbaugh is an America...

1990s hand painted and signed ceramic head of a Japanese character.

Patinated plaster Bust of Woman "Carmencita" by Herbert McRae Miller Signed H. McRae Miller and bearing a paper from Art association of Montreal 60th anniversary exhibition 1933 . H...

Bronze Amazonian Indian head signed Bicata (marked 1/8) on Alfa Arte foundry marble base. Dimensions height 15 cm. Additional information: Material: Bronze Artist: Bicata.

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 charming and very high quality true pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. patinated bronze and ormolu statues, signed Carl Kauba. Each patinated bronze winged cherub is dated 1...

A charming and finely detailed pair of early 19th century carved walnut and ebonized fruitwood busts of Turkish nobles. Each bust is raised by a square ebonized fruitwood base with a...

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...

This headless bust in white marble adorned in 18th century clothing on a later plaster pedestal on square wooden base Dimensions of bust: Length 21"...

A COMPANION OF ULYSSES, AFTER THE ANTIQUE BUST IN THE TOWNLEY COLLECTION, NOW IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LATE 18TH CENTURY. Statuary Marble. This bust is a late 18th century English co...

Carved sandstone busts of Caligula & Tiberius, 17th-18th century, Denmark.