# Can anyone identify the subject of a bronze bust?

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**Created:** [December 29, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-subject-of-a-bronze-bust/977294 "2022-12-29T18:51:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-subject-of-a-bronze-bust/977294/1 "2022-12-29T18:51:20Z")

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Can anyone identify the subject of the bronze bust on the right, the woman with the initials GRC?

[![](https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/everard/33/733233/H19153-L305099317_original.jpg) ](https://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/everard/33/733233/H19153-L305099317_original.jpg)

It is a small bronze portrait bust by sculpture artist Catherine Wentworth. Wentworth lived from 1865-1948.

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-subject-of-a-bronze-bust/977294/2 "2022-12-29T18:55:21Z")

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The dude on the left looks like a bit like an idealized neoclassical Napoleon Bonaparte. Not sure about GRC, and Google has failed me.

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-subject-of-a-bronze-bust/977294/3 "2022-12-30T00:58:33Z")

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> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> Catherine Wentworth

Impressionist, and her portraits seem to show the same lady… so consider it a selfie, an impressionist selfie (can’t be distinguished from also including her family members as the subject, even if its a sister in law or step mother…she might squash non-family into the one model she uses.

There is a photo of her in her studio [https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.19089/](https://www.loc.gov/resource/ggbain.19089/)  
short or tied up curled hair. High eyebrows, similar nose, similar chin with the similar smile lines/jowl lines … like in various moods or ages of life … changes the look to be of a thin or wellfed lady, but seemingly theres the same lady in behind the impressionist effects.

random portrait she did. [https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/painting-catherine-denkman-wentworth-521-c-e4a7caf810](https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/painting-catherine-denkman-wentworth-521-c-e4a7caf810) … see the similarity ?

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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-the-subject-of-a-bronze-bust/977294/4 "2022-12-30T04:02:59Z")

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There is a record for the Gorham bronze division …it might provide more clue as to what GRC could be.  
here [Gorham Manufacturing Company, Bronze Division records, [ca. 1905-1978] | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution](https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/gorham-manufacturing-company-bronze-division-records-7036)