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Works attributed to Torrigiano and his workshop in England include the marble and polychrome terracotta wall tomb of Dr John Yonge, or Young (d. 1516) for the Rolls Chapel, Chancery Lane, the first entirely Renaissance-style monument in England; the terracotta bust of Sir Gilbert Talbot (d. 1517; Victoria and Albert Museum, London); the elaborate marble and polychrome terracotta wall tomb of Dean John Colet (d. 1519) in Old St Paul's (destroyed 1666); and the marble head and painted limestone roundel of Christ the Redeemer (c. 1522; before 1532 set in the western exterior wall of Abbot Islip's chapel, Westminster Abbey; since the 19th century Wallace Collection, London).
Gilbert Talbot, the third son of John, second Earl of Shrewsbury, was elected to the Order of the Garter in about 1495. In 1504 he was sent to Rome by King Henry VII to invest Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro of Urbino into the Order. He is known here wearing an unidentified (damaged) chain of office. The bust is closely related to the work of the Italian sculptor Pietro Torrigiano. It is likely that it was made in Torrigiano's workshop or by a close follower. Like the bust of Henry VII, this too may be based on a cast either made from life or from a death mask.
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