Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 1720 - 1788.

"He has a handsome face and good eyes; I think his busts, which about this time were commonly sold in London, are more like him than any of his pictures." This was the verdict of Dr William King, an English Jacobite who entertained Charles for tea during his secret visit to London in 1750. Dr King's servant recognised the incognito prince, having seen "the busts which are sold on Red Lion Street". The bust, originally modelled in clay by the leading French sculptor Lemoyne, was commissioned by Charles who paid for numerous plaster casts to be taken from it. The most naturalistic of all the portraits of the prince, it uses none of the signs or symbols of royalty and is his only sculpted image.

Credit: Purchased 1900