Portrait of Henry Polidori

Details

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
Portrait of Henry Polidori
signed with monogram and dated 'April.,53' (lower left)
pencil, pen and brown ink, on paper, with partial watermark dated 1843
6 x 5¼ in. (15.2 x 13.3 cm.)

Provenance

William Michael Rossetti and by descent in his family to the present owner.

Literature

V. Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Catalogue Raisonné, Oxford, 1971, vol. 1, no. 417.

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Lot Essay

Henry Polidori (or Polydore, as he anglicised it) was one of the eight children, four sons and four daughters, of Gaetano Polidori, a teacher of Italian in London and the son of a doctor. One of Henry's sisters, Frances, married Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian political refugee and Dante scholar, in 1826, and thus became the mother of Dante Gabriel, Christina and William Michael Rossetti.

Virginia Surtees reads the date as 1855.

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