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Rosalba Carriera was an Italian pastellist and painter, the sister-in-law of Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, whose works significantly influenced her own. The present portrait of Thomas Chase is typical of Carriera's early style, and is a testament to her mastery of the challenging pastel medium.
The sitter, Thomas Chase, was born in Lisbon to British parents and witnessed the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755. He wrote of it in a letter to his sister, which was discovered a century later and published in Blackwood's magazine in 1860. Reference to Chase can be found in correspondence from Horace Walpole, who believed, erroneously, that he had been crushed in the ruins of his house during the earthquake. Chase spent much of his adult life in Italy as a member of Lord Tylney's household in Florence, and is recorded on many occasions in Rome, Naples and Fiesole.
The sitter, Thomas Chase, was born in Lisbon to British parents and witnessed the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755. He wrote of it in a letter to his sister, which was discovered a century later and published in Blackwood's magazine in 1860. Reference to Chase can be found in correspondence from Horace Walpole, who believed, erroneously, that he had been crushed in the ruins of his house during the earthquake. Chase spent much of his adult life in Italy as a member of Lord Tylney's household in Florence, and is recorded on many occasions in Rome, Naples and Fiesole.