A marble bust of King Edward VII looking slightly to the left and wearing evening dress with the riband and Star of the Order of the Garter. 

Count Gleichen was the youngest of the three sons of Queen Victoria’s half-sister Princess Feodore, wife of Prince Ernest Christian of Hohenlohe Langenburg. After retiring from the navy, he pursued a career as a sculptor. He trained in the studio of the British neo-classical sculptor William Theed for three years. Besides his advantageous royal connections he became an accomplished and well-recognised sculptor. The busts of the Prince and Princess of Wales were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1876 and the Art Journal stated that same year that the busts ‘are the latest likenesses that have been taken of the Royal Highnesses […]. The Count's modelling is now of a kind which ranks him truly among sculptors; these busts, and others in the present Academy exhibition, bear out in the amplest manner this assertion.'