Lot 56
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THE PROPERTY OF A DESCENDANT OF THE SECOND VISCOUNT BEARTED MC
Onorio Marinari* (1627-1715)

A sleeping Boy, bust-length

Details
Onorio Marinari* (1627-1715)
A sleeping Boy, bust-length
black and red chalk
7½ x 5 7/8 in. (192 x 149 mm.)
Provenance
N. Hone (L. 2793).
An unidentified collector's paraph 'CWJ' (?) with inscription 'Marinari, Onorio b. Florence 1627+1715. from the Collection of Nathaniel Hone RA'.

Lot Essay

A pupil of Carlo Dolci and Baldassare Franceschini. Many drawings by Marinari are in the Biblioteca Marucelliana.
The Second Viscount Bearsted M.C. was a Trustee of the National Gallery, London, between 1936-43, and again 1947-8, and the Tate Gallery, London, between 1938-42.