POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Count Niccoló Soderini (1765) Oil on canvas (134 x 97 cm) Palazzo Barberini, Rome To enlarge the picture, click on it and "Open in a new tab" If Batoni needed to prove that, besides being a superb colourist, he was also a master in the difficult art of reproducing the texture of …
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The Duke of Grafton
POMPEO BATONI (1708-1787) Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1762) Oil on canvas (76 x 61 cm) National Portrait Gallery, London Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735-1811), styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era. He was one of the very few dukes …
An English Diplomat
ANTON RAPHAEL MENGS (1728=1779) Louis de Visme (1762-67) Oil on canvas (129 x 83 cm) Christ Church College, Oxford (To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and choose "Open in a new tab") Another example of Mengs' excellence as a portraitist. The portrait must have been painted between 1762 and 1767, the years when de …
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 …
Castel Sant’ Angelo
GASPAR VAN WITTEL (1653-1736) also known as VANVITELLI Castel Sant' Angelo seeing from the South (1690-1700) Oil on canvas measures unknown Private collection To enlarge the picture, right-click on it and "Open in a new tab" Gaspar van Wittel began his studies in his hometown Amersfoort, training under the landscape painter Jan van der Heyden. …
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 …
A Classical Landscape
HENDRIK FRANS VAN LINT (1684-1763) A Classical landscape with figures in front of a temple (1748) Oil on canvas: 48 x 72 cm Private collection Hendrik Frans van Lint was born in Antwerp, the son of the history painter Pieter van Lint. As his father died when he was only 6 years old he became …
Sir Robert Clive
ANTON VON MARON (1713-1808) Portrait of Sir Robert Clive (1766) Oil on canvas 150 x 120 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Roma To enlarge the images, right-click on them and "Open in a new tab" The first picture was scanned by me from the book "Settecento: L´Europe a Rome", catalogue of the exhibition …
Old Masters 