[A group in the artist's studio in Florence] [art original]

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Description

Title
[A group in the artist's studio in Florence] [art original]
Creator
Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist
Published / Created
[ca. 1770]
Publication Place
England
Abstract

A caricature conversation group portrait depicting a gathering in the studio of the amateur artist Henry William Bunbury. Bunbury is seated at a round table in the center. The man presenting arms to him is Captain Walcott. At the right, wearing a tricorne hat is Captain Elliott. Patch is seated at his easel in the background and is painting the commmedia dell-arte character Puchinello. On the left, a servant holding back a curtain for an arriving guest has been identified as Valentino, Servitore di Piazza. Two paintings hang on the back wall. One to the left is a view of King’s College Cambridge. The other a figure and a horse

Description
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal.
Inscribed on verso: Henry Wm. Bunbury Rome 1770, aetat suae 20".
Identifications are based on drawings published by W.B. Watson, “Thomas Patch, Some new light on his work” Apollo (May 1967), 348-353.
Provenance
Painted for Henry William Bunbury and first recorded at Barton Hall, Suffolk, in 1868, and by descent to Sir Henry Bunbury, 10th Bt.; his executors sale, Sotheby's, 17 December 1931, no. 40 (bt. Fred Lewis). Fred Skull, his sale; Christie's, 9 May 1952, lot 34 (at Thomas Agnew for W.S. Lewis).
Extent
1 painting : visible image 22 x 37.5 in., framed to 28.75 x 44 in.
Language
No linguistic content

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
LWL Ptg. 141 Framed, shelved in UFS Rack 3A

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Artists
Oil paintings (visual works)
Material
oil on canvas ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Subjects
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
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Citation
Thomas Patch. A Group in the Artist's Studio in Florence. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
12455439
Object ID (OID)
16893207

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