POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) A gentleman in a red coat (1758-60) Private collection Oil on canvas (99 x 74 cm) (To enlarge the picture, right click on it and chose "Open in a new window") Pompeo Batoni, one of the finest portrait painters in European history, is beginning to emerge from the darkness to which he …
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The Noble Musician
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) John Montagu, Marquess of Monthermer (1758) Oil on canvas (96.5 x 71 cm) The Duke of Buccleuch (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") In my previous post, The Marquess of Monthermer, I mentioned that the young Lord Brudenell commissioned portraits from Batoni and Mengs. …
The Glory of the Virgin
SEBASTIANO RICCI (1659-1734) The Virgin in Glory with the Archangel Gabriel and Saints Eusebius, Roch and Sebastian (1724-25) Oil on canvas (113 x 63 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles To enlarge the image, right-click on it and the "Open in a new tab" The text that follows was written by the …
Purity and Meekness
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Purity of Heart (1752) Meekness (1752) Oil on canvas (98 x 74 cm) Uppark, West Sussex, UK To enlarge the images, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" The following paragraphs belong to Alastair Laing's excellent book (1) published by the National Trust and the National Gallery for the magnificent exhibition …
Venetian Vedute
FRANCESCO ZUCCARELLI (1702-1788) Capriccio with San Giorgio Maggiore Capriccio with the Prison from the Riva Schiavone Oil on canvas (86 x 128 cm) Private collection Zuccarelli is considered the most important landscape painter to have emerged from his adoptive city of Venice during the first half of the XVIIIth century. Born in Pitigliano, he spent …
A Sad Gentleman
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Henry Hutchinson O'Hara (1763) Oil on canvas (74 x 61 cm) Private collection Born in Lucca, Tuscany, the son of a goldsmith, Pompeo Batoni came to Rome when he was 21 and remained there for the rest of his life. He became the leading Italian painter of his generation. He specialized in …
James Caulfeild
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) James Caulfeild, 4th Viscount Charlemont, later 1st Earl Charlemont (1753-56) Oil on canvas (98 x 74 cm) Yale Center for British Art, Yale, Connecticut, USA To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was the portraitist of choice for the young British and Irish men …
Count Niccolo Soderini
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Portrait of the Count Niccolo Soderini (1765) Oil on canvas (134 x 97 cm) Galleria Nazionale d' Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Roma To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Pompeo Batoni was born in Lucca, Tuscany, the son of a goldsmith. Trained by his father he …
Old Masters 