Bust of Thomas Baker [SEP] creator
Bust of Thomas Baker
The bust of Thomas Baker is a 1638 marble portrait sculpture created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, with much of the bust undertaken by a pupil of Bernini, probably Andrea Bolgi. It is currently held in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, who purchased the bust in 1921 for 1480 English guineas.
Baker (1606–58) was High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1657 and connected to the court of Charles I. He may have been indirectly involved in another Bernini bust, carrying the triple portrait
John Dalton (bust)
The bronze bust of John Dalton, located along the corridor on the first floor of Burlington House, was created by Miss Levick(also creator of the Humphry Davy bust) and donated to the Chemical Society in 1903 by former president Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845-1925), as also attested by the inscription engraved on the bust's base: "John Dalton presented by T.E. Thorpe CB. L.L.D. F.R.S. past president in commemoration of the centenary of the enunciation of the atomic theory".
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