Lot 104: PORTRAITS IN MEZZOTINT ENGRAVINGS OF THE TRIUMVIRATE OF GREAT 'ENGLISH' SCULPTORS OF FLEMISH ORIGIN FROM VARIOUS SOURCES comprising:  Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721), measuring a cast of the head of Bernini’s Daphne, by J. Smith, after Godfrey Kneller (34cm x 26cm), Trinity Fine Art, London, Dec. 1999, no. 33, Laurent Delvaux (1696-1778), by Alexander Vanhauken, after Isaac Whood, 1735 (36cm x 26cm), framed and glazed (53cmx 43cm), Michael Rysbrack (1694-1770), J. Faber after J. Vanderbank, 1734 (37cm x 27cm), framed and glazed (51cm x 42cm), (3) PROVENANCE: CHARLES AVERY COLLECTION Charles Avery is a specialist in European sculpture, particularly Italian, French, English, Flemish and Dutch. A graduate in Classics at Cambridge University, he obtained a Diploma in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute and a doctorate for published work from Cambridge. Having been Deputy Keeper of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum for twelve years (1966-79), and a Director of Christies for ten years, since 1990 he has been a highly respected, independent historian, consultant, writer and lecturer. His books include ‘Florentine Renaissance Sculpture’, 1970, ‘Giambologna the Complete Sculpture’, Phaidon, 1987, ‘Donatello: An Introduction’, John Murray, 1994; ‘Bernini, Genius of the Baroque’, Thames and Hudson, 1997 (paperback, 2006),  and ‘The Triumph of Motion: Francesco Bertos’, 2008.