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Lot Essay
The innovative and highly acclaimed Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova trained under Bernardi (Giuseppe Torretto), in Pagnano, before moving to Venice to continue his studies in the 1770s. By the age of 24 he was in Rome, where he set up his studio close to the via del Babuino, and executed some of his finest works, including a monument in honour of Pope Clement XIV. Canova was received with great enthusiasm in London in 1815, and was honored with the title of Marquis of Ischia on his return to Rome in 1816.
John Jackson, a prolific and successful portrait painter, whose work was inspired by that of Sir Thomas Lawrence and Henry Raeburn, attended the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1804 and was elected a Royal Academician in 1817. He was introduced to Canova by Sir Francis Chantrey, with whom he travelled to Rome via Switzerland in 1819. The present portrait derives from the large (50 x 40 in.) portrait that Chantrey commissioned Jackson to paint of Canova, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1820 (no. 186), and is now at the Yale Center for British Art.
John Jackson, a prolific and successful portrait painter, whose work was inspired by that of Sir Thomas Lawrence and Henry Raeburn, attended the Royal Academy Schools in London in 1804 and was elected a Royal Academician in 1817. He was introduced to Canova by Sir Francis Chantrey, with whom he travelled to Rome via Switzerland in 1819. The present portrait derives from the large (50 x 40 in.) portrait that Chantrey commissioned Jackson to paint of Canova, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1820 (no. 186), and is now at the Yale Center for British Art.