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The Bust of Thomas Baker is a 1638 marble portrait sculpture created by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini with much of the bust undertaken by a pupil of Bernini probably Andrea Bolgi. It is currently held in the Victoria and Albert Museum London who purchased the bust in 1921 for 1480 English guineas. Baker (1606-58) was High Sheriff of Suffolk and connected to the court of Charles I.

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