POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Captain Otway Cuffe, 3rd Baron Desart (1769) Oil on canvas (134 x 96 cm) Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Virginia, USA To enlarge the picture, click on it and open it in a new tab Otway Cuffe (1737-1804) was the second son of John Cuffe, 1st Baron Desart, by his second …
Tag: 18th century Rome
A gentleman in red
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 …
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. …
A young Gentleman
HUGH DOUGLAS HAMILTON (1740-1808) Portrait of a young gentleman Pastel on paper (23.5 x 20 cm) Location unknown To enlarge the image, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Hamilton was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1740, the son of a wig-maker. Unfortunately, there is not much documented evidence about his early years. …
Old Masters 