POMPEO BATONI
196 x 165.6 x 7.6 cm (framed)
Provenance
By descent in the family of the sitters at Headfort House, Co. Meath;
By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 29 November 1968, lot 46;
With William R. Drown, London, 1971;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 23 November 1979, lot 167, where bought by Colnaghi;
From whom acquired by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston.
Exhibitions
Charlston, South Carolina, Masterpieces of Italian Art from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 19 May - 27 June 1982.
Literature
House-list at Headfort, c. 1780s;
C. Hussey, ‘Headfort-II, Co. Meath. The Seat of the Marquess of Headfort’, Country Life, LXXIX, 28 March 1936, p. 327, fig. 3 (shown in situ in the Eating Room);
J. Steegman, ‘Some English Portraits by Pompeo Batoni’, The Burlington Magazine, LXXXVII, March 1946, p. 63, no. 82;
I. Belli Barsali, ‘Pompeo Girolamo Batoni’, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Rome 1965, VII, p. 201;
F. Russell, ‘Portraits on the Grand Tour. Batoni’s British Sitters’, Country Life, CLIII, 14 June 1973, p. 1756, fig. 6;
Masterpieces of Italian Art from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, exh. cat., Charleston 1982, pp. 22, 24, figs. 15 and 16;
A. M., Clark, Pompeo Batoni. Complete Catalogue, Oxford 1985, p. 41, cat. nos. 439 and 440, plates 392 and 393.