Hugh Douglas Hamilton, R.H.A. (1734-1806)

细节

Hugh Douglas Hamilton, R.H.A. (1734-1806)
Portrait of Antonio Canova, bust-length, wearing a red coat
inscribed on a label attached to the backboard 'Portrait of Canova by Hamilton at Rome/Delt/Anne...Cunninghame' and 'Drawn at Rome'; pastel
9½ x 7in. (260 x 178mm.)

来源

Anne Cunninghame.
Capt. C.C. Henry, Lodge Park, Straffon; Christie's, 13 July 1928, lot 46 (30 gns. to Pawsey & Payne).
J. Thursby-Pelham.
Mrs Guy Argles and by descent.

拍品专文

Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the leading neo-classical sculptor in Italy, was born in Possagno, moved to Venice in 1768 and settled in Rome in 1780 for the rest of his career.
Hugh Douglas Hamilton worked in Rome from 1778 until 1791 when he returned to Dublin.
This pastel was presumably executed in 1787 at the same time as Hamilton's pastel of Canova in the latter's studio, now in the collection of Hugh Farmar.