Bust of Lord Byron, 1852. The original of this bust, by the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, came as the result of the artist pursuing Byron for a sitting. Byron wrote to his publisher John Murray, 'Bartolini the celebrated Sculptor wrote to desire to take my bust - I consented on condition that he also took that of the Countess Guiccioli... The Sculptor is a famous one & as it was done by his own particular request will be done well probably.' With Byron’s consent, Bartolini travelled to Pisa where Byron was living at the time. Bartolini cast a naturalistic impression of the poet, perhaps too much so as Lord Byron wrote again to Murray, “The bust does not turn out a very good one – though it may be like for aught I know – as it exactly resembles a superannuated Jesuit.” Nevertheless, Countess Giuccioli regarded it “the best likeness of Byron she knew of…”
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