 The portrait was modeled and carved in Italy, but it is now held by the Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, Texas.In May 1865, German sculptor Elisabet Ney traveled to the small Sardinian island of Caprera to seek out the prominent Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, whose portrait she had decided to sculpt.Garibaldi initially refused to sit for her, but she insisted and finally persuaded him to cooperate.