Portrait of a sculptor, standing full length, resting his arm on an urn and holding a hammer

Details

ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1770
Portrait of a sculptor, standing full length, resting his arm on an urn and holding a hammer
with inscription 'More Giocobbe' (verso)
black and white chalk with pen and black ink on blue-green prepared paper
19 3/8 x 13 3/4 in. (49.3 x 35 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 94, when acquired by the present owner.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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Lot Essay

Stylistically this intriguing and elegant drawing appears to be by a British artist working in Rome in the 1770s. The inscription on the verso seems to refer to the Scottish-born landscape painter Jacob More (1740-1793), whose self-portrait, painted in Rome in 1783, is in the Uffizi (see 'Gli Uffizi', catalogo generale, Firenze, 1979, p. 938, cat. A617), but no portrait drawings of this type by him are known.

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