 The sculpture of Venus was previously in the Barberini collection, during which time its left leg and the support were added.The Barberini Venus was purchased in 1763 by Gavin Hamilton, a Scottish connoisseur in Rome who acted as guide to the British "milordi".It was later bought by Thomas Jenkins, the English antiquities dealer and banker to the English community established in Rome, and then from him in the spring of 1765 by William Weddell of Newby Hall, Yorkshire, who was on the Grand Tour.