Lot 110: A CARVED MARBLE HERM BUST OF SIR THOMAS MUNRO (1761-1827)

A CARVED MARBLE HERM BUST OF SIR THOMAS MUNRO (1761-1827) >BY SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY (1781-1841), 1838<br>Signed and dated to reverse 'SIR F. CHANTREY,/ SC: 1838'; together with a rectangular scagliola pedestal and a later white marble plinth >26½ in. (67.7 cm.) high; 74¾ in. (190.2 cm.) high, with the pedestal<br>

Royal Academy, 1840, no. 1190, 'Marble Bust of Sir Thomas Munro, from which the head of a colossal statue was made for Madras'

A. Yarrington et al., The fifty-sixth volume of the Walpole Society 1991/1992, London, 1994, p. 237 and 289.

Gifted by the artist to Lady Munro, c.1840 and by descent to the present owners.