The depiction of Jan Wielopolski, in a coat (?), with a long wig was part of the Royal Castle’s historic collections. Alongside the sculptures of Chronos and Fame, as well as a series of bronze busts of famous Polish personages and the painted decoration, it constitutes the iconographic scheme for the Knights’ Hall which was furnished in the years 1781–6 and was intended to commemorate distinguished individuals as well as glorious events in Polish history. The sculpture is one of 18 smaller busts that were placed in the Knights’ Hall. Inscribed JOAN: WIELOPOLSKI / + MDCLXXXVIII. in gold letters on front of base. Jan Wielopolski of the Starykoń coat of arms (d. 1688). Son of Jan, Voivode of Kraków and Zofia née Kochanowska. Starosta of Kraków from 1667, Grand Chancellor of the Crown from 1678. One of Jan III Sobieski’s closest collaborators; brother in law to Queen Maria Kazimiera. He negotiated the anti-Turkish alliance in 1683. The bust may have been modelled after a print of Wielopolski by Jean Edelinck made before 1680.