LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

33.15 in. (84.20 cm.) (height) by 29.06 in. (73.80 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed indistinctly with monogram lower left: AF (just below the book) inventory number 21 etched into the reverse

Exhibited:

Leamington Spa, Leamington Spa Art Gallery, Art Treasures of Warwickshire Exhibition, 29 May – 3 July 1948, no. 52 (as Artist Unknown); London, Royal Academy of Arts, Italian Art and Britain, 1960, no. 81 (as ascribed to Lorenzo Lotto);; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, on long term loan.

Literature:

Probably W. Field, An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Town and Castle of Warwick, 1815, p. 205 (‘Portrait of an Italian – supposed to be by Titian’) in a short passage to the right of the Compass Window; C. W. Spicer, Vitruvius Britannicus. History of Warwick Castle, London 1844, p. 36 (‘Portrait of an Italian; – Titian’), in the Compass Room;; H. T. Cooke, An Historical and Descriptive Guide to Warwick Castle…, Warwick 1847, p. 70, (‘Portrait of an Italian, by Tiziano Vicelli [sic]’), in the Compass Room;; Cooper’s, History of Warwick and Guide to the Castle, illustrated, 1850, p. 99, in the Compass Room;; W. Kendall, Inventory of Warwick Castle, ms. 1853, in the Compass Room;; Anon, Inventory of Warwick Castle, ms. circa 1860, in the Compass Room;; Possibly F. E. Warwick, ‘Warwick Castle’, in The Pall Mall Magazine, vol. XI, January–April 1897, p. 37 (‘A Warrior, in black velvet doublet with wide sleeves, by Moroni’), in the Gilt Drawing room; or p. 40 (‘Duke of Ferrara by Dosso Dossi’), in the Red Sitting Room;; Possibly Anon, Inventory of the contents of Warwick Castle, Ms. 1900 (‘Portrait [Dosso Dossi]’), in the Morning Room;; J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy.., vol. II, London 1912, p. 217, and note 3 (as Torbido);; R. Longhi, 'Nuovi Ampliamenti', in Opere Complete, V, Officina Ferrarese, Florence 1956, p. 195, under note 13 (as Amico friulano del Dosso);; Italian Art and Britain, exhibition catalogue, London 1960, p. 43, cat. no. 81 (as ascribed to Lotto);; R. Longhi, 'L'Amico friulano del Dosso', in Paragone, XI, 1960, 131, pp. 3–9, reproduced fig. 4 (as Amico friulano del Dosso).

Provenance:

Possibly George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746–1816), by 1815; Thence by descent.