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Man in fetters wearing a turban (Farinelli in the role of Arbace?)
Maker
1685-1752
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1701-1779
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Width: 29.5 cm
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Amigoni moved to London in 1729 and soon became associated with the city’s fashionable society. He befriended the famous castrato Farinelli, who may be the sitter of this drawing. The castrati were male opera singers castrated before puberty to prevent their voice range from changing.
Farinelli’s debut performance in the role of the Persian hero Arbace at the Haymarket Theatre in 1734 resulted in a sensational success. A certain Mrs Fox-Lane was so overcome with emotion that she stood up and shouted, “One God, one Farinelli!”
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Literature
p. 180
(as anonymous eighteenth-century draughtsman)
Howard, Jeremy, 'Hogarth, Amigoni and "The Rake's Levee": New Light on A Rake's Progress' in 'Apollo', November 1997 - 31-37; 146, 429
fig. 3 on p. 32
Claye, Elaine, 'A group of portrait drawings by Jacopo Amigoni' in 'Master Drawings', Spring 1974 - 41-48, 97-101; 12, 1
no. 34 on p. 48 and p. 42, p. 43 under no. 1, p. 48 under nos. 29-30
pl. 37b ...More
Shipley, John B., 'Ralph, Ellys, Hogarth, and Fielding: The Cabal Against Jacopo Amigono' in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Summer 1968 - 313-331; 1, 4
p. 318
fig. 7
Blunt, Anthony and E. Croft-Murray, Venetian drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries at Windsor Castle, London 1957
pp. 163-66, no. 71 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: T. Hudson.
Inscription: 8
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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