EDWARD HODGES BAILY, BRITISH, 1788 - 1867, AFTER JOSEPH NOLLEKENS, 1737 - 1823, AN EARLY 19TH CENTURY MARBLE BUST OF CHARLES JAMES FOX, 1749 - 1806 Signed and dated, socle Inscribed ‘A patriots even courfe fleer’d mid factions wildeft storms unmov’d by all who mark’d his kind rever’d by all who knew his heart belov’d R.Fitzpatrick’. (h 57cm x d 25cm x w 32cm) N.B. The present bust follows the prime version made by Nollekens in 1802 for Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford. The model is the second portrait of Fox made by Nollekens. The sculptor had executed an earlier portrait of the sitter (wearing a wig) in 1791, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in that year and is now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (inv. no. H. ck.13). The Woburn portrait was popular amongst Fox's friends and supporters, many of whom had copies made. A version dated 1808 and acquired by the Prince Regent is in the Royal Collection (RCIN 35430)