JAMES MITCHELL (BRITISH, FL. 1850-80): A MARBLE BUST OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN wearing a shirt with buttoned collar and drapery, signed to the reverse 'Jas. Mitchell Sculpt. 1868', on a stepped cylindrical socle, raised on a fluted plinth, the marble bust 45cm high Provenance: Purchased by the current owner from the J Wiseman Collection, Christie's, London, 23 April 20016, lot 61. James Mitchell (fl.1850-80) specialised in portrait busts and copies after the antique, exhibiting at the Royal Academy between 1850 and 1852 from his studio at Mount Street and later on Cheapside. His marble bust of Geoffrey Chaucer was sold at Sotheby's, London, 12 July 2005, lot 60.