POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI (Lucca 1708-1787 Rome)

Portrait of a gentleman,three-quarter-length seated,in a fur-lined blue coat a letter in his left hand, his right arm leaning on a table with letters and writing implements

Details

POMPEO GIROLAMO BATONI (Lucca 1708-1787 Rome)
Portrait of a gentleman,three-quarter-length seated,in a fur-lined blue coat

a letter in his left hand, his right arm leaning on a table with letters and writing implements
indistinctly signed 'P B S' and 'To Mssr W Ano..o ...od In London'(lower right, on the letter)

oil on canvas
39 x 29.1/8 in. (99.1 x 74 cm.)

Literature

A.M. Clarke, Pompeo Batoni, A Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text, edited and prepared for publication by E.P. Bowron, Oxford, 1985, p. 251, no. 150, pl. 141, as a copy of an unlocated work, but now accepted by E.P. Bowron as an autograph work.

Lot Essay

Formerly described as a copy of a lost work, the signature on this painting has not previously been recorded. When allowance is made for condition, there seems no reason to doubt that this is a substantially autograph work of circa 1750. It can be compared with other portraits by the artist of the same period, for example those of Thomas Dawson, later Viscount Cremorne (Private Collection) and Ralph Howard, later 1st Viscount Wicklow (J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky).

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