Models bust of Francis Basset, later executed in marble; unidentified.

Primary sources

• Letter dated presumably 1818 from John Bryant Lane to Thorvaldsen.
• Else Kai Sass: Thorvaldsens Portrætbuster, Copenhagen 1963-65, Vol. I, p. 451-457. Sass suggested A297 as the bust of Basset, but it has since turned out to represent the Italian Count Cristino Rasponi.

Last updated 16.06.2014