Not much is further know about his life until about 1747 where he had taken on a commission in Madrid to teach the son of King Fernando VI about sculpture.
In 1748 however he had a disagreement with the contractor who had employed him to teach the prince, reputed because he was not getting paid and he subsequently left Spain.
It is also known that Prince Hoare visited Italy in 1749[2] and so it is likely that it is there that he met Giuseppe and convinced him to return to Bath with him.
After several years of working for Prince Hoare, where it thought he was the sculptor of the bust of Beau Nash which today adorns the wall of the Pump Room in Bath and at the time was attributed to Hoare, he opened his own studio in Bath by 1753 where the piece now displayed in the Brownsword Gallery at the Holburne Museum "Diana and Endymion" was used as a centrepiece.
The ambassador in London wrote to Turin on 18 March 1756 that Plura had intended to leave England for Piedmont in April but he had died that very morning "d'une fievre maligne".