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Both statues were for the Pantheon, a lakeside temple in Hoare's landscape garden at Stourhead, Wiltshire. The marble <i>Flora</i>cost Hoare £400. It is based on the Farnese <i>Flora</i>, a classical sculpture once owned by the Farnese family that is now in the Museo Nazionale, Naples. In the mid-18th century, small copies of the Farnese <i>Flora</i> were produced in quantity by London's Bow porcelain factory. Rysbrack's <i>Hercules</i> remains in the Pantheon at Stourhead, a property that today is in the care of the National Trust and open to the public.\n\nRysbrack (1694-1770) was born in Antwerp, and trained in the Netherlands, but spent his working life in Britain. He was one of the most important sculptors active in this country in the first half of the 18th century, and specialised in portrait busts and funerary monuments. Although he never visited Italy, many of his works are clearly indebted to classical archetypes. 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