Innocentia.Ut flos in septis secretus nascitur hortis, / Ignotus pecori, nullo contusus aratro [...]
Gavinus Hamilton pinxit 1766 Dominicus Cunego sculp.t Romae
E Tabula in Oedibus Nobilis Viri Ducis de Rochefoucault
Fine engraving. platemark 465 x 275mm (18¼ x 10¾"), with very large margins.
Fine engraving after a painting by Gavin Hamilton (1723-98), Scottish painter, archaeologist and dealer. While Hamilton's only identifiable pupil was David Allan, his encouragement assisted and influenced artists in Rome, where he worked, for over thirty years. He was instrumental, for instance, in persuading the sculptor Antonio Canova to abandon Rococo for a more restrained Neo-classical style. As the inscription states, this painting was then in the collection of the duke of Rochefoucault, French writer and explorer.
[Ref: 43151] £160.00
E Tabula in Oedibus Nobilis Viri Ducis de Rochefoucault
Fine engraving. platemark 465 x 275mm (18¼ x 10¾"), with very large margins.
Fine engraving after a painting by Gavin Hamilton (1723-98), Scottish painter, archaeologist and dealer. While Hamilton's only identifiable pupil was David Allan, his encouragement assisted and influenced artists in Rome, where he worked, for over thirty years. He was instrumental, for instance, in persuading the sculptor Antonio Canova to abandon Rococo for a more restrained Neo-classical style. As the inscription states, this painting was then in the collection of the duke of Rochefoucault, French writer and explorer.
[Ref: 43151] £160.00