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Short Notice
Stefano Tofanelli’s ‘Deification of Aeneas by Venus’ rediscovered
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 29-31
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Cerchi, Alessio (Cerchi, Alessio)
Subjects
artists:
Tofanelli, Stefano / Hamilton, Gavin
dates:
1790-1799
places:
Lucca / Rome
subjects:
Italian art / Neo-classicism / Identification
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Deification of Aeneas by Venus, by Stefano Tofanelli. 1794. Oil on canvas, 165.5 by 157.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Apollo and Cyparissus, by Stefano Tofanelli. 1792. Oil on canvas. (Villa Mansi, Segromigno; photograph the author).
Attributed works:
3. Apotheosis of Romulus before the gods of Olympus, by Stefano Tofanelli. 1790. Oil on canvas, 208 by 318 cm. (Palazzo Altieri, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Hebe giving drink to the eagle of Jupiter, by Gavin Hamilton. c.1767. Oil on canvas, 127 by 94 cm. (Stanford University Museum of Art).
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
Richard Livesay’s painting of the Eton Montem
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 650-657
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Author:
Dille, Catherine (Dille, Catherine)
Subjects
artists:
Livesay, Richard
dates:
1790-1799
museums and institutions:
Eton College, Windsor, Great Britain
subjects:
British art / Montem ceremony (Eton) / Group portraits / Ceremonies / Students / Charlotte, Queen consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818 / George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Detail of Fig.4, showing the Servitors.
Attributed works:
10. Wyrley Birch in Montem costume, by Richard Livesay. c.1791. Oil on canvas, 23.5 by 20 cm. (Collection of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
Attributed works:
11. Detail of Fig.4, showing Colonel Thomas Earle and his attendants.
Attributed works:
12. Detail of Fig.4, showing spectators of the procession.
Attributed works:
13. Military review of the Worcestershire Regiment by Major-General Whitelocke on Southsea Common, by Richard Livesay. 1823. Oil on canvas, 78 by 124 cm. (Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery).
Attributed works:
2. Montem in Weston’s Yard with King George IV, by Charles Turner. 1820. Pencil and watercolour on paper, 50.8 by 68.5 cm. (Collection of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College).
Attributed works:
3. The festival of Eton Montem with the procession up Salt Hill, by Robert Cruikshank. Hand-coloured copperplate, 14.6 by 23.5 cm. (From B. Blackmantle: The English Spy, London 1825; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. The Montem Procession, by Richard Livesay. c.1791–93. Oil on canvas, 120 by 327 cm. (Eton College, Eton).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.4, showing the Montem Captain Edward Jones and two Salt-Bearers receiving a donation from a man on horseback.
Attributed works:
6. The Hon. George Montagu afterwards Earl of Sandwich, by Richard Livesay. c.1790. Canvas, 74.9 by 62.2 cm. (Mapperton House, Dorset; photograph Lisa Stein).
Attributed works:
7. Joseph Hucks at Eton, by Richard Livesay. c.1790. Oil on canvas. (Private collection; photograph © Richard Budd 2022).
Attributed works:
8. Francis Gervais, by Richard Livesay. c.1790. Oil on canvas, 22.8 by 19.8 cm. (Armagh County Museum).
Attributed works:
9. Detail of Fig.4, showing Serjeant-Major Richard Bethell and the Serjeants.
Short Notice
A portrait by William Beechey in The Frick Collection, New York
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 316-318
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Author:
Owens, Eloise (Owens, Eloise)
Subjects
artists:
Beechey, William / Hoppner, John / Bone, Henry
collectors and dealers:
Frick, Henry Clay
dates:
1790-1799
museums and institutions:
Frick Collection, New York, United States
subjects:
British art / Portraiture / Attributions / Sitters
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Elizabeth Sophia Baillie (née de Vismes), by William Beechey. 1795. Oil on canvas, 76.5 by 63.5 cm. (The Frick Collection, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Elizabeth Sophia Baillie (née de Vismes), by Henry Bone, after William Beechey. 1795. Pencil drawing squared in ink for transfer, 14.5 by 10.1 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Attributed works:
3. Clayton Parlor, in the Clayton Album, by Lewis Stephan. 1901. Photograph. (Frick Family Albums and Scrapbooks. The Frick Collection/ Frick Art Reference Library Archives).
Article
Canova’s copper head of Medusa
11/2019 | 1400 | 161
Pages: 916-923
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Author:
Gustin, Melissa L. (Gustin, Melissa L.)
Subjects
art literature:
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim / Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
artists:
Canova, Antonio
buildings:
Villa dei Papiri, Herculaneum, Italy
dates:
1790-1799
media:
Marbles / Copper / Bronzes
museums and institutions:
Museo Civico, Bassano del Grappa, Italy / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy / Musei Vaticani, Rome, Italy
styles:
Italian sculpture
subjects:
Medusa / Perseus / Antiquity / Roman art / Conservation
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Triumphant Perseus, by Antonio Canova. Second version, 1804–06. Marble, 242.6 by 191.8 by 102.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova. c.1797–1800. Embossed copper with bronze additions, 31 by 40.5 by 29.8 cm. (Museo Biblioteca Archivio, Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
3. Detail of Fig.1, showing the head of Medusa.
Attributed works:
4. Head of Medusa, cast after Antonio Canova. 1806–07. Plaster, height 31.1 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Perseus and Medusa, by Antonio Canova. c.1798–99. Oil on canvas, 24 by 73 cm. (Museo Correr, Venice).
Attributed works:
7. Fig.2 during restoration. (Courtesy Museo Archivio Biblioteca Bassano del Grappa).
Attributed works:
8. Five dancers with garlands of flowers, by Antonio Canova. 1799. Mixed media on canvas, 72 by 178 cm. (© Museo e Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Possagno).
Attributed works:
9. Fig.2 prior to restoration. (Courtesy Museo Archivio Biblioteca Bassano del Grappa).
Western art unattributed:
10. Archaising bust of a youth (bust of Apollo). Roman. Bronze, height 25 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples).
Western art unattributed:
10. Ptolemy Apion. Roman. Bronze, height 29 cm. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples; photograph the author).
Western art unattributed:
5. The Rondanini Medusa. Roman copy after a bronze original of c.170 BC. Marble, height 29 cm. (Glypthotek, Munich; photograph © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro).
Western art unattributed:
9. Ptolemy Apion, from De’ bronzi di Ercolano e contorni incisi con qualche spiegazione: Tomo Primi: Busti, Naples 1767. Table LIX, p.203.
Article
François Gérard’s portraits of Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart
06/2019 | 1395 | 161
Pages: 482-487
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Author:
Galitz, Kathryn Calley (Galitz, Kathryn Calley)
Subjects
artists:
Gerard, Francois Baron (1770-1837) / David, Jacques-Louis / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
dates:
1790-1799
media:
Oil painting (technique)
museums and institutions:
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States
subjects:
French art / Portraiture / Brongniart, Alexandrine Emilie / Salons (art exhibitions) / Technical analysis / Infrared photography / Versions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by François Gérard. 1795. Panel, 86.8 by 55.5 cm. (Private collection; photograph Julien Pepy).
Attributed works:
2. Detail of Fig.1, showing Gérard’s adjustment to a lock of hair on the sitter’s forehead. (Photograph Alice Panhard).
Attributed works:
3. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by François Gérard. 1795. Canvas, 49.53 by 38.1 cm. (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT).
Attributed works:
4. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by Adolphe-Gustave Huot, after François Gérard. 1882. Engraving, 30 by 19.2 cm (image). (Cabinet des Estampes, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris).
Attributed works:
5. Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. 1806. Canvas, 100 by 70 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
6. Cupid and Psyche, by François Gérard. 1798. Canvas, 186 by 132 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Attributed works:
7. Alexandrine Émilie Brongniart, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, after François Gérard. c. 1795. Pencil on paper, 8.2 by 5.9 cm. (Musée Ingres, Montauban).
Article
Biagio Rebecca draws the London Opera House: London’s King’s Theatre in the 1790s
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 364-373
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Author:
Burden, Michael (Burden, Michael)
Subjects
artists:
Rebecca, Biagio / West, Benjamin / Novosielski, Michael / Marinari, Gaetano
buildings:
Concert Room, King's Theatre, London, Great Britain / King's Theatre, Haymarket, London, Great Britain
dates:
1790-1799
media:
Watercolours
museums and institutions:
Royal Collection, (Great Britain)
subjects:
Architectural history / Theatre design / Interior design / Interior spaces / Decorative arts / Opera / Music / Plays (representations) / Audiences
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. The auditorium of the Opera House, London, by Biagio Rebecca. c.1793. Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 66.5 by 54 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019).
Attributed works:
2. An Inside View of the Opera House, by J. Page after R. Arnold, published in Carlton House Magazine (1792). Engraving, 12.4 by 20.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
3. The Opera House, by A.C. Pugin after Thomas Rowlandson, hand coloured by J. Black, published in R. Ackermann: Microcosm of London, London 1808–10 (1809). Engraving with acquatint, 26.6 by 33.3 cm. (The Bodleian Library, Oxford).
Attributed works:
4. Opera House or King’s Theatre at the Hay-Market, by James Storer after Anthony van Assen, published by Harrison & Co. 1795. Etching, 10.5 by 14 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. The Concert Room, The Opera House, London, attributed to Biagio Rebecca. c.1793. Pen and ink and watercolour on paper, 59.9 by 79.5 cm. (Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2019)
Attributed works:
7. The Prince of Wales as ‘The Modern Atlas’, by Isaac Cruikshank, published by S.W. Fores. 1791. Hand coloured etching, 25.3 by 37.6 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Attributed works:
8. The Opera House and the Concert Room, London, as completed 1794, by J. Willis after A.C. Pugin, published by John Weale, c.1800. Engraving, 13 by 22.3 cm. (Private collection).
Western art unattributed:
6. The Opera House, Haymarket, London. After 1794. Watercolour on paper, 20.6 by 32.7 cm. (British Museum, London).
Book Review
Un musée révolutionaire: Le Musée des Monuments français d’Alexandre Lenoir. Edited by Geneviève Bresc-Bautier and Béatrice de Chancel-Bardelot
05/2018 | 1382 | 160
Pages: 432-433
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Reviewer:
McClellan, Andrew (McClellan, Andrew)
Subjects
artists:
Vauzelle, Jean-Lubin
dates:
1790-1799 / 1800-1829
media:
Stained glass / Sculpture
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Musée National des Monuments Français, Paris, France
places:
France / Paris
subjects:
French sculpture / Commemorative monuments / Historic monuments / Art museums / Museums / Exhibition catalogues / Conferences
Illustrations
Attributed works:
4. The thirteenth-century gallery at the Musée des Monuments français, by Jean-Lubin Vauzelle. c.1795–1820. Watercolour, 37.5 by 52.5 cm. (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
Book Review
Transatlantic Romanticism: British and American Art and Literature, 1790–1860. By Andrew Hemingway and Alan Wallach
06/2017 | 1371 | 159
Pages: 482-483
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Reviewer:
Wilton, Andrew (Wilton, Andrew)
Subjects
dates:
1790-1799 / 1800-1849 / 1850-1859
subjects:
Proceedings / Literature / American School (United States of America) / British / Papers / Conferences / Paintings / Romanticism
Article
Raeburn: a decade of experiment
03/2016 | 1356 | 158
Pages: 194-199
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Author:
Thomson, Duncan (Thomson, Duncan)
Subjects
artists:
Raeburn, Henry
dates:
1790-1799
subjects:
Portraits / British painting / Scottish painting / Composition (artistic arrangement) / Influence / Critical Reception / Light / Lighting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
38. Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik, by Henry Raeburn. 1791 (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin)
Attributed works:
39. The Revd D'Ewes Coke, his wife, Hannah, and Daniel Parker Coke, by Joseph Wright of Derby. 1782-83 (Derby Art Gallery)
Attributed works:
40. David with the head of Goliath, copy after Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, by Henry Raeburn. c.1784-86 (Present whereabouts unknown)
Attributed works:
41. David with the head of Goliath, by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli. 1635-40 (Musei Capitolini, Rome)
Attributed works:
42. The chicken vendor, by Pensionante del Saraceni. c.1618 (Museo del Prado, Madrid)
Attributed works:
43. Self-portrait of Rembrandt with Saskia, by Rembrandt van Rijn. 1636 (British Museum, London)
Attributed works:
44. William Ferguson of Kilrie, by Henry Raeburn. Early 1790s (Private collection)
Attributed works:
45. The Allen brothers (Portrait of James and John Lee Allen), by Henry Raeburn. Early 1790s (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth)
Attributed works:
46. William Forbes of Callander, by Henry Raeburn. 1798 (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh)
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