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The victory was the Battle of Culloden Moor near Inverness in northern Scotland on 16 April 1746. It has been suggested that this bust represents a man older than 25, the age of the Duke of Cumberland in 1746. However, comparisons with contemporary commemorative medals show him with similar features.\n\nWilliam Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765) was third son of George II and Caroline of Ansbach. He was created Duke of Cumberland in 1726. He became known as a formidable and ruthless military commander ('Butcher' Cumberland). He fought in Flanders and later, back in Britain, he defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. He commissioned a series of pictures that combined his artistic and military interests. \n\nSir Henry Cheere (1703-1781) was one of the most successful sculptors in  mid-18th-century Britain, and unlike some of his more eminent sculptor contemporaries, such as John Michael Rysbrack and Louis Fran‡ois Roubiliac, he was a native of this country. He specialised in portrait busts and tomb sculpture, and in the latter was particularly adept in the use of coloured marbles. He also employed a light, and yet at the same time highly-finished, style that was typical of the Rococo.","physicalDescription":"The subject looks half-right. Hair curled over ears and tied at the nape of the neck. Wearing military uniform with gorget and aiguillettes, star and sash of the garter and another sash passing over the right shoulder outside the tunic. The bust is strengthened behind the plaster; the modelled surface is covered with bronze paint, which has peeled in places. 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