Felix Weiss [de Weldon] - an early/mid-20th Century green and brown patinated cast bronze portrait bust of an elderly gentleman, possibly Lord Allenby, cast with signature and date 'Felix Weiss 1933', height approx 35cm, raised on a stepped wooden plinth. Note: Felix Weiss de Weldon was born in Vienna in 1907. He became a world famous sculptor in the 1930s and beyond with commissions to sculpt many of the famous figures of the world, including the silver jubilee bust of King George V, Edward VIII, George VI, President John F. Kennedy, Elvis Presley and Benjamin Franklin. Weiss became an American citizen in 1945 after serving in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War. He is best known for the Iwo Jima U.S. Marine Corps memorial outside the walls of Arlington Cemetery, which he was commissioned to construct by the Congress of the United States after the conclusion of the Second World War.