Lot 101: A sculpted white marble bust of a maiden, dated

A sculpted white marble bust of a maiden, dated 1865, by Emma Stebbins (American, 1815-1882), with flowers in her hair, on a waisted socle, signed and inscribed 'Rome 1865', 42cm high Emma Stebbins was at the centre of what Henry James called the 'White Marmorean Flock', a group of largely lesbian American sculptors who settled in Rome in the mid-19th century.