Lot 80

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE LORE AND RUDOLF HEINEMANN SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, NEW YORK AND THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON

Circle of Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752)

Portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales, full-length, standing by a desk with a crown and a hat, an armchair and a column behind

Details

Circle of Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752)
Portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales, full-length, standing by a desk with a crown and a hat, an armchair and a column behind
pen and brown ink, reddish-brown wash, heightened with white on blue paper, corners cut
283 x 228 mm.

Provenance

With Agnews.

Literature

J. Woodward, Amigoni as Portrait Painter in England, The Burlington Magazine, XCIX, 1957, p. 21, fig. 23.
E. Claye, A Group of Portrait Drawings by Jacopo Amigoni, Master Drawings, XII, 1974, no. 18, fig. 36b (as Amigoni).

Exhibited

New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann, 1973, no. 26, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Part of a group of 44 portrait drawings related to pictures by Amigoni, most of which were with the London drawings dealer Meatyard around 1925. Many sheets were acquired by J.G. Lousada and donated to the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Seven drawings from this group, including the present one, are connected to portraits by Amigoni. Their purpose is possibly the same as that of Oudry's Livre de Raison, as a record of the portraits painted by the master. But in contrast to Oudry's drawings that were executed by the master himself, these were probably drawn by a studio assistant. Elaine Claye, who supports an attribution to Amigoni, proposes that they might alternatively be by Amigoni's printmaker Joseph Wagner, who engraved four of the seven portraits.
Amigoni's portrait of the Prince of Wales is in the Barnard Collection at Raby Castle, Durham.

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