GIUSSEPE BENASSI (FL MID 19TH C) PORTRAIT BUST OF AUGUSTA FRANCES SCOTT OF BETTON STRANGE HALL SHROP

GIUSSEPE BENASSI (FL MID 19TH C) PORTRAIT BUST OF AUGUSTA FRANCES SCOTT OF BETTON STRANGE HALL SHROPSHIRE AND PENIARTH UCHAF WALES signed on the truncation Benajsai fece L'vorno and dated 1845, on turned socle, alabaster, 29cm h and a contemporary mid 19th c English School portrait of the same sitter, seated full length in a black dress, oil on canvas, 49 x 46.5cm (2)Augusta Frances Wynne (1813-1891) married in 1840 George Jonathan Scott of Betton Strange Hall, Shrewsbury and Peniarth Uchaf, Wales. Giuseppe Benassi is described as an alabaster sculptor and a talented portraitist, also in marble in the Valente titrattista anche in marmo, prepared for the Great Exhibition, 1851