Identify the subject of this bust?

[Nicholas Ball]

8 small piccolos, are you sure? Were they a circus family?? Is this Dad??   

[Roger]

Octavio Piccolomini perhaps?

[PJDeluhery]

I tried a couple Google searches myself but could not find an exact match. I used "17th Century England" and then hit "images." A couple might fit - but no exact match. He might also be French, so I tried 17th Century France and then 17th Century Holland. Again, some interesting images but no match.

So....if you like the piece, then use your artistic license to paint it as you like. Grab a favorite painting form the above and have some fun.

[PJDeluhery]

Well, he would know!   

It's certainly a nice bust; but hard to paint if you don't know who it is or who did the engraving.

My only other thought would be to Google historical paintings of artists in the ECW era and look for one that comes close (Maybe you already did that!). As you know, many flats are based on paintings, but this is awfully like finding a needle in a haystack. 

[PJDeluhery]

You might check the Jupiter Min. site to see if it's listed. Does seem to be Andreas' work, and all his stuff goes out under the Jupiter trademark.

[böckchen]

Who has shaped the piece of metal with his artistic hammers?
Andreas Trost?
I suspect that it is a form of the end of the 1700s.
Peter I., August the Strong
the Great Elector of Brandenburg (Oranienburg), Saxony, Hesse, Bavaria

[Nicholas Ball]

Can't be Cromwell, he had 2 warts by his lips and one on his forehead!!

He also seems to have a small tash. More like Charles 1. But seems a bit wide in the face?

[marko]

Looks English Civil war period.  Rupert or Cromwell perhaps?


Mark 

[rm]

Anyone know who this might be? Looks familiar to me, but I am not coming up with the name…