(Updated March 2015) Head-and-shoulders solid plaster bust on a round socle, the sitter's head turned slightly to his left. He is dressed in uniform, with epaulettes, and with the Swedish Order of the Sword on his left lapel. The hair is shown tied back in a queue, with a prominent ribbon. This copy was made in 1908 by the cast workshop of the Louvre, Paris, whose dated oval mark it bears in the centre bottom of the back, and was purchased for the Museum from Spink's by Sir James Caird in June 1945. It is presumed to have been taken from the marble version in the Louvre. Jones is considered to be the 'father of the US Navy' since, while by birth a Scot from Kirkudbright, he became one of the earliest American rebel naval commanders during the War of American Independence. His most famous exploit is the France-based 1779 cruise he led against the British coast in the 'Bonhomme Richard', and his attack on a Baltic convoy off Flamborough Head that September. In this he captured both the British naval escorts - the 'Serapis' and 'Countess of Scarborough' whose resistance none the less facilitated the escape of the valuable convoy. Jones was later in Russian service and on his death, in Paris, he was buried in a protestant cemetery there. In 1905, however, his remains were located by an American team and reinterred in the chapel of the US Naval College at Annapolis where there is another marble version of this Houdon bust, dated 1781.