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Two studies for a portrait composition - unidentified seated man with a dog and unidentified standing man

Maker

(artist)
1685-1752

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1701-1779

Title

Two studies for a portrait composition - unidentified seated man with a dog and unidentified standing man

Medium

pen and ink (brown), wash (brown), bodycolour (white) on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 45.1 cm
Width: 28.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2440

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Reginald Pole; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 March 1930, lot 79 (as by Thomas Hudson); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Chiara Lo Giudice, 'Un gruppo di disegni inglesi di ritratto e qualche nota sulla fortuna di Jacopo Amigoni in Inghilterra' in Arte Veneta, 79, Milan 2022
p. 180
(as anonymous eighteenth-century draughtsman)

Claye, Elaine, 'A group of portrait drawings by Jacopo Amigoni' in 'Master Drawings', Spring 1974 - 41-48, 97-101; 12, 1
nos. 29 and 30 on pp. 47-48, p. 42, p. 43 under no. 1 and p. 48 under no. 34

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, first letter in graphite, the rest in black chalk: T Hudson. delt (same hand on D.1952.RW.2441).

Inscription: Recto: right centre, graphite: 18.

Collector's mark: none.

Watermark: centre: H (same on D.1952.RW.3905; see drawing in file; see Claye 1974 - suggested this is the mark of the Dutch mill Herderskind 1693-1770.)

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