The ''bust of Thomas Baker'' is a 1638

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created by the Italian artist

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, with much of the bust undertaken by a pupil of Bernini, probably Andrea Bolgi.Rudolf Wittkower, ''Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque'', 1997 (4th ed.), p.259 It is currently held in the

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, London, who purchased the bust in 1921 for 1480 English guineas.The Glasgow Herald, 2 August 1921 – This article also suggests that the bust once belonged to the English seventeenth-century painted Peter Lely, who sold it for GB £150
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Baker (1606–58) was

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in 1657 and connected to the court of

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. He may have been indirectly involved in another Bernini bust, carrying the triple portrait of Charles I by

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to Rome; it was from this portrait that Bernini carved the now-destroyed bust of King Charles.

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