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Article
Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of Martha Carr
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 380–385
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Author:
Bethencourt Pérez, Fátima (Bethencourt Pérez, Fátima)
Author:
Kowalczyk, Ernest (Kowalczyk, Ernest)
Subjects
artists:
Lawrence, Thomas / Cosway, Richard / Hoppner, John
dates:
1790-1799
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
subjects:
British art / Half-length portraits / Portraits / Sitters / Carr, Martha / Charlotte, Queen consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Martha Carr, by Thomas Lawrence. c.1790. Oil on canvas, 76 by 64 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Queen Charlotte, by Thomas Lawrence. 1789–90. Oil on canvas, 239.5 by 147 cm. (National Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Mrs Thomas Chinnal Porter, by Richard Cosway. 1790. Watercolour on ivory, 7 by 5.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
4. Thomas Chinnal Porter, by Richard Cosway. 1790. Watercolour on ivory, 7 by 5.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. Master Ward, by George Romney. 1771–73. Oil on canvas, 126 by 102 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
6. John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmoreland, by Thomas Lawrence. c.1806. Oil on canvas, 247 by 147 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Attributed works:
7. Mrs Thornton, by John Hoppner. Late 18th century–early 19th century. Oil on canvas, 61 by 74 cm. (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).
Article
A portrait by Richard Westall of the poet Eleanor Porden
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 358–367
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Author:
Bryant, Barbara (Bryant, Barbara)
Subjects
artists:
Westall, Richard / Flaxman, John / Flaxman, Mary Ann (1768–1833)
dates:
1800-1809
museums and institutions:
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Urbana Champaign, United States
patrons:
Porden, William / Knight, Richard Payne / Hope, Thomas, 1769-1831
subjects:
Portraits / Sitters / Porden, Eleanor Anne (1795–1825) / Poetry / Neo-classicism / British art / Attributions / Attributions, former
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Reverse of Fig.2, showing the handwritten inscription on the stretcher.
Attributed works:
10. Design for a couch, by Thomas Hope. 1807. Engraving. (From Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, Executed From Designs By Thomas Hope, London, pl.xxviii, nos.2 and 3).
Attributed works:
11. Thetis bringing the armour to Achilles, by John Flaxman. 1805. Engraving. (From The Iliad of Homer Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman RA Sculptor, London, pl.xix).
Attributed works:
2. Eleanor Anne Porden, here attributed to Richard Westall. 1807. Oil on canvas, 113 by 143.8 cm. (© Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign IL).
Attributed works:
3. Eleanor Porden, by John Flaxman. 1807. Graphite on paper, 15.9 by 11.1 cm. (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
Attributed works:
4. Photograph of a lost drawing of Eleanor Porden. (Derbyshire Record Office, Matlock).
Attributed works:
5. Detail from J. Horwood’s Plan, showing 59 Berners Street. (From J. Horwood: Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and parts adjoining shewing every house, London 1794).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of Richard Westall, R.A., by Thomas Lawrence and Richard Westall. Mid-1790s. Graphite on paper, 21.4 by 16.3 cm. (© Christie’s Images; Bridgeman Images; private collection).
Attributed works:
7. Expiation of Orestes, by William Bond, after Richard Westall. 1810. Stipple engraving, 35.3 by 30.5 cm. (From J. Britton et al.: The Fine Arts of the English School, London 1812).
Attributed works:
8. Reconciliation of Helen and Paris, after his defeat by Menelaus, by Richard Westall. c.1805. Oil on panel, 127 by 101 cm. (Tate).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.2, showing the frieze on the vase.
Article
Phillipo: an Ottoman merchant painted by George Stubbs
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 348–357
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Author:
Mould, Theodore (Mould, Theodore)
Subjects
artists:
Stubbs, George / Reynolds, Joshua / Cosway, Richard
dates:
1760-1769
museums and institutions:
Royal Society of Arts
subjects:
British art / Portraits / Horses (animals) / Dyeing / Leather / Ottomans (people) / Sitters
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The Duke of Ancaster’s grey Turkish horse with a Turkish groom at Creswell Crags, by George Stubbs. c.1763–64. Oil on canvas, 90.2 by 111.8 cm. (Trustees of the Grimsthorpe and Drummond Castle Trust Ltd).
Attributed works:
10. A view of the ruined city of Palmyra, by Giovanni Battista Borra after Robert Wood. 1753. Engraving. (From R. Wood: Ruins of Palmyra, London 1753; British Library, London).
Attributed works:
2. Philip an Armenian, circle of George Stubbs. Before 1794. Etching, 18.4 by 13.5 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the portrait, dress and red leather boots of Phillipo.
Attributed works:
4. View from Beaufort Buildings, looking north towards the Strand and the entrance to Denmark Court, by Thomas Sandby. 1723–98. Watercolour, with pen and grey ink on paper, 4.6 by 6.2 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. The red-goatskin cover of A Register of the Premiums and Bounties Given by the Society, published by James Phillips, London 1778. (British Library, London).
Attributed works:
6. A Tartar, by Octavian Dalvimart. 1802. Engraving. (From A. Williams: The Costume of Turkey, London 1802, pl.XXXII; Wellcome Collection, London).
Attributed works:
7. Working drawing for The Anatomy of the Horse, by George Stubbs. 1758–66. Pencil, black and red chalk and red-brown ink on paper, 48 by 30 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
Attributed works:
8. Lord Grosvenor’s Arabian stallion with a groom, by George Stubbs. c.1765. Oil on canvas, 99.3 by 83.5 cm. (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth).
Attributed works:
9. Portrait of an Armenian, by Richard Cosway. 1771. Oil on canvas, 92.4 by 71.1 cm. (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven).
Article
Holbein in exhibitions in Frankfurt and London
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 166–170
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Reviewer:
Goldring, Elizabeth (Goldring, Elizabeth)
Subjects
artists:
Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Holbein, Hans the Elder, ca.1465-1524 / Burgkmair, Hans, the elder
artists:
Holbein, Ambrosius / Hilliard, Nicholas / Eyck, Jan van
dates:
1500-1549
museums and institutions:
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, Great Britain
subjects:
German painting / British painting / Tudor / Courts (social groups) / Portraits / Attributions / Sitters
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Holbein and the Renaissance in the North, Städel Museum, Frankfurt,(2nd November 2023–18th February 2024) | :
subjects:
Holbein at the Tudor Court, Queen's Gallery, London, (10th November 2023–14th April 2024) | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a man with the surname Fischer, by Hans Holbein the Elder. c.1512. Silverpoint on prepared paper, reworked with brush and ink, 13.5 by 9.5 cm. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
2. Portrait of a man with the surname Fischer, by Hans Holbein the Younger (?). 1512. Oil on panel, 35 by 26.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
3. The wife of a man with the surname Fischer, by Ambrosius Holbein (?). 1512. Oil on panel, 35 by 26.6 cm. (Kunstmuseum Basel; Bridgeman Images; exh. Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
4. Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1527. Black and coloured chalks, pricked for transfer to a wooden panel, 39.8 by 29.9 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
5. Unidentified man, perhaps George Cornwall, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1535–40. Oil and tempera on panel, diameter 32.4 cm. (Städel Museum, Frankfurt).
Attributed works:
6. Anne Boleyn, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1532–36. Black and coloured chalks on pink prepared paper, 28.2 by 19.3 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
7. Unidentified man, perhaps George Cornwall, by Hans Holbein the Younger. c.1543? Black and coloured chalks with black and brown inks on pink prepared paper, 27.9 by 19.1 cm. (© His Majesty King Charles III, 2024; Royal Collection Trust; exh. Queen’s Gallery, London).
Article
Concealing portraits in Renaissance Venice: Jacometto’s painted box
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 126–1139
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Author:
Manges Nogueira, Alison (Manges Nogueira, Alison)
Subjects
artists:
Jacometto / Bellini, Giovanni / Memling, Hans / Giorgione / Cima da Conegliano, Giovan Battista
dates:
1480-1519
museums and institutions:
Lehman Collection / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
patrons:
Contarini, Alvise
sources:
Ovid / Metamorphoses
subjects:
Portrait boxes / Venetian art / Mythology / Iconography / Orpheus / Sitters
subjects:
Querini, Daria
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. and 2. A tethered roebuck (recto) and Alvise Contarini (verso), by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1485–95. Oil and gold on panel (recto), oil on panel (verso), 11.7 by 8.6 cm. (Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
10. Portrait of a woman, possibly a Novice of San Secondo, by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1490. Oil on panel, 24 by 15.5 cm. (Cleveland Museum of Art).
Attributed works:
11. Rendering of the figural outlines in the painting in Fig.3.
Attributed works:
12. Auditus, by Cornelis Cort after Frans Floris I. 1561. Engraving, 21.5 by 26.5 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
13. Detail of Orpheus (‘The Widener Orpheus’), showing the figure of Orpheus. Venice, c.1515. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 39.5 by 81 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
14. Orpheus and Charon, by Nicola da Urbino. Urbino, c.1515. Maiolica, diameter 28.2 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
Attributed works:
15. The wedding of Orpheus and Eurydice, Eurydice bitten by a snake, and Orpheus and Charon, after Benedetto Bordon. 1497. Woodcut, 29.8 by 20.6 cm. (page). (From Ovidio Metamorphoseos vulgare, transl. Giovanni de’ Bonsignori, Venice 1497, fol.83v; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
16. Daniel in the cave of the lions, by Cima da Conegliano. c.1495. Tempera and gold on panel, 57.7 by 43.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
17. Orpheus charming the animals, by the workshop of Cima da Conegliano. Early 16th century. Pen and wash on paper, 25 by 20 cm. (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence).
Attributed works:
18. Orpheus redeeming Eurydice, by Moderno. Late 15th or early 16th century. Bronze, diameter 10.6 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
19. Petrarch, Laura and Orpheus, attributed to the Petrarch Master. 1463–64. Coloured pigments, gold and ink on parchment, 23 by 14 cm. (From Sonnets and Triumphs by Petrarch, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, L.101-1947).
Attributed works:
20. Portrait medal of Cristoforo Civran. Venice, late 15th century. Bronze, diameter 4.9 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
21. Stag at rest chained to a tree, by Giulio Campagnola. c.1510–15. Engraving with stipple, 18.2 by 11.8 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
22. Deer chained to a laurel tree. Venice, late 15th century. Tempera on vellum. (From Rime, by Niccolò Lelio Cosmico, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice, MS Marciano It. IX 152 (=7057), fol. 2v.).
Attributed works:
23. Tiberius. Roman, 14–20, in a mount with a Medici emblem and inscription, Italian or French, 16th century. Sardonyx, gold, pearl and enamel, 8 by 4.8 cm. (Art Institute of Chicago).
Attributed works:
24. Staurotheke with a double-sided sliding lid. Constantinople (?), early 9th century. Gilded silver, gold, enamel worked in cloisonné and niello, 2.7 by 10.3 by 7.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
3. and 4. A scene here identified as Orpheus and Charon (verso) and Portrait of a woman here identified as Daria Querini (recto), by Jacometto Veneziano. c.1485–95. Oil and gold on panel (verso), oil on panel (recto), 10.2 by 7.3 cm. (Robert Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Portrait effigy of Elisabeth Krauss, with a sliding cover. Nuremberg, c.1640. Coloured wax and wood, 13.5 by 12.2 cm. (Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg).
Attributed works:
6. Giovanna de’ Rossi, by Lorenzo Lotto. c.1505. Oil on panel, 42.9 by 33.6 cm. (Musée des Beaux Arts, Dijon).
Attributed works:
7. Allegory of Chastity (cover for Giovanna de’ Rossi), by Lorenzo Lotto. c.1505. Oil on panel, 42.9 by 33.7 cm. (National Gallery of Art, Washington).
Attributed works:
8. Philipp Melanchthon and cover with grotteschi and an inscription, by Hans Holbein the Younger. 1535. Oil on panel, diameter 9 cm. (Landesgalerie, Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover).
Attributed works:
9. Portrait of a boy, by Giovanni Bellini. c.1474. Oil on panel, 38 by 23 cm. (Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham).
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Dogs, Vergers and Murillo’s ‘El Perdiguero’
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1333–1335
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Author:
Pullins, David (Pullins, David)
Subjects
artists:
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban
dates:
1650-1699
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
places:
Seville
subjects:
Spanish art / Full-length portraits / Sitters / Dogs (animals)
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Don Andrés de Andrade y Cal, by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. 1665–72. Oil on canvas, 200.7 by 119.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing the dog’s features.
Attributed works:
3. Portrait of a dog, by Domenico Maria Sani. c.1725–45. Oil on canvas, 123.5 by 169 cm. (Pinacoteca Civica, Forlí).
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Image of a connoisseur: an unknown portrait of Pierre Jean Mariette
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1106–1100
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Author:
Friedenthal, Antoinette (Friedenthal, Antoinette)
Subjects
artists:
Mariette, Pierre-Jean, collector and art critic, 1694-1774 / Mariette, Jean, painter and printmaker, 1660-1742 / Cochin, Charles-Nicolas, II, 1715-1790 / Massé, Jean-Baptiste
dates:
1740-1749
media:
Miniatures (paintings)
museums and institutions:
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
subjects:
French art / Sitters
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a man, here identified as Pierre Jean Mariette, by an anonymous artist (perhaps Jean Mariette?). 1740s. Gouache on ivory, 3.4 by 2.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
2. Pierre Jean Mariette, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin. 1756. Lead point on paper, diameter 11 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Paris).
Attributed works:
3. Pierre Jean Mariette, by Jean-Baptiste Massé. 1735. Black chalk, stumped, with red and white chalks and perhaps some wash on paper, 18.8 by 14.6 cm., mount 47.8 by 36.3 cm. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).
Attributed works:
4. Detail of Fig.1.
Attributed works:
5. Jean Mariette, by Antoine Pesne. 1723. Oil on canvas, 113 by 93 cm. (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Pierre II Mariette, by Franz Ertinger. Black chalk on paper, 16.8 by 12.8 cm. (Fondation Custodia, Paris).
Attributed works:
7. Pierre I Mariette, by Jean Mariette after François de Poilly with a handwritten inscription ‘Petrus Mariette. Iconum mercator Parisiis’ by Pierre Jean Mariette. Etching, 4 by 3.1 cm. (Albertina, Vienna).
Article
Naming Parmigianino’s Antea
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 828–835
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Author:
Vaccaro, Mary (Vaccaro, Mary)
Subjects
artists:
Parmigianino
patrons:
Baiardi, Francesco (1486–1561)
places:
Parma
sources:
Baptismal registers / Inventories
subjects:
Italian painting / Portraits / Sitters
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Portrait of a young woman, possibly Antea Smeraldi, by Parmigianino. Oil on canvas, 136 by 86 cm. (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; photograph Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Madonna and Child with saints (‘Madonna of the long neck’), by Parmigianino, showing the face of one of the angels. Oil on panel. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photograph Scala, Florence).
Attributed works:
3. Study of the head of a bearded man, by Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli. Black and red chalk on paper (recto), 14.6 by 11.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Study of a female head, here attributed to Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli and identified as a copy after a lost preparatory drawing by Parmigianino. Black and red chalk with grey-brown ink on paper (verso), 14.6 by 11.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Study of a female head, by Parmigianino. Red chalk on paper, 10.1 by 8.7 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris; RMN).
Attributed works:
6. Portrait of a woman (‘Turkish slave’), here identified as a woman in the Baiardi family circle, possibly Maria Caterina Baiardi, by Parmigianino. Oil on panel, 68 by 53 cm. (Galleria Nazionale, Parma; photograph © A. De Gregorio; NPL – DeA Picture Library; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
7. Detail of a family tree of Smeraldo Smeraldi, showing his siblings and half-siblings (including Antea) and children. (Archivio di Stato, Parma, Fondo Famiglie; photograph the author).
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A portrait of Frances Walsingham: identification and future research
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 622-626
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Author:
Clifford, Elise Effmann (Clifford, Elise Effmann)
Subjects
artists:
Segar, William / Peake, Robert, the elder, 1551-1619
collectors and dealers:
Lumley, John, First Baron Lumley, ca. 1533-1609
dates:
1550-1599
museums and institutions:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
subjects:
Elizabethan / Portraits / Sitters / Walsingham, Frances, Countess of Essex / Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 / Dudley, Robert, First Earl of Leicester, 1532?-1588 / Devereux, Robert, Second Earl of Essex, 1565-1601 / Identification
subjects:
British art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
3. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, by William Segar. c.1590. Oil on panel, 112 by 86 cm. (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin).
Western art unattributed:
2. Portrait of a woman, here identified as Frances Walsingham, Lady Sidney. c.1585[?]. Oil on panel, 85.1 by 74 cm. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).
Western art unattributed:
4. Reconstruction in Photoshop of the original inscription on the cartellino in Fig.3. (Courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; photograph Randy Dodson).
Western art unattributed:
5. Macro detail of Fig.4, showing the craquelure and vanished letters. (Courtesy Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; photograph Randy Dodson).
Western art unattributed:
6. Portrait of a woman, here identified as Frances Walsingham, Lady Sidney. c.1585[?]. Oil on panel, 91 by 76 cm. (Parham House, West Sussex; photograph Parham Park Ltd).
Article
The sitter in Copley’s ‘Portrait of a lady’ in the Wadsworth Atheneum identified
07/2021 | 1420 | 163
Pages: 613-615
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Author:
Rawles, Susan J. (Rawles, Susan J.)
Subjects
artists:
Copley, John Singleton
dates:
1770-1779
museums and institutions:
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, United States
patrons:
Forrester Foot, Bridget
subjects:
Sitters / Half-length portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
14. Portrait of a lady, here identified as Bridget Forrester Foot, by John Singleton Copley. c.1778. Oil on canvas, 125.8 by 100.7 cm. (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT).
Attributed works:
15. Portrait of Mrs Foot, by John Singleton Copley. Photograph by A.C. Cooper, 1931. (Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
Attributed works:
16. Portrait of a lady, by John Singleton Copley. Photograph 1947. (From the catalogue of a sale by Parke-Bernet, New York; Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London).
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