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This lively bust is one of Rysbrack's few busts of children. The sitter was the son of William Barnard (1696-1768) who held a succession of ecclesiastical posts before became bishop of Derry.
Noteworthy is the boy's fashionable costume, a Hussar's uniform. The fad for this Hungarian costume was born out of British sympathy for Hungary and Vienna in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48).
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