‘The STOWE NERO’

BUST OF The YOUNG emperor Nero (37 – 68 A.D.)

Rome, first half of the 18th century

Carved from white carrara, sicilian jasper and bigio morato marble

50 cm high

33 cm wide

Provenance:
The Dukes of Buckingham, Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, England;
Purchased at the Christie’s auction sale of the contents of Stowe House in 1848 (lot 714: ‘A Roman bust, with drapery of jasper’);
W. Green, Esq (who purchased the work at the above sale); Collection of Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788 - 1850), Twice Prime Minister of the UK; Purchased at auction from a Yorkshire property of Peel Family, circa 1940 - 1945 (either Elmire House, near Ripon, or Hellifield Peel Castle, near Skipton); Private collection Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, England; Private collection London, who purchased from the above in the late 1970s.

£24, 000