The Head of Proserpine is an 1872 portrait of Oxford-born Jane Morris by her lover Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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They included an 1840 portrait of William Stratton, "head keeper to Sir John Cope of Bramshill Park, Hampshire", by Edmund Havell, and a 1797 Philip Reinagle painting Harrier Killing a Bittern.

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"George Nassau, Third Earl Cowper" (1772-3) is another of the artist's masterpieces a bold formal portrait of a standing figure holding his hat above his head in a gesture that might be awkward, but somehow isn't.

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Also in the group of donated works is a stylized royal portrait from the late 16th century, "Commemorative Head of an Oba, " which shows the ruler's head chin-deep in a collar made from coral beads and capped with a crown made from braided strings and other beads.

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Resemblances between his work and that of Rodin, Dali and others are, he says, coincidental although the black fedora apparently plastinated to his head is a nod towards the anatomist's hat in a famous portrait by Rembrandt.

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It was, said Vasari, "a portrait of Signora Giulia Farnese with the countenance of Our Lady, and in the same picture the head of Pope Alexander adoring her".

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