Portrait of the Earl of Northampton
| Portrait of the Earl of Northampton | |
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| Artist | Pompeo Batoni |
| Year | 1758 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait painting |
| Dimensions | 237.7 cm × 149.2 cm (93.6 in × 58.7 in) |
| Location | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
Portrait of the Earl of Northampton is a 1758 portrait painting by the Italian artist Pompeo Batoni. The sitter was Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton, a young English aristocrat. He is shown against a Neoclassical backdrop referencing Ancient Rome. He is shown with a whippet on the chair beside him. [1] Northampton was short-lived and died five years after the painting at the age of twenty six. [2]
Batoni was a Rome-based painter who specialised in depictions of visiting Grand Tourists, primarily from Great Britain and Ireland. This work, along with Batoni's picture of Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham established him as the pre-eminent portraitist of the visiting elite. Northampton also commissioned a history painting from Batoni the same year, the now lost Hector's Farewell to Andromache. [3] Today the painting is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, having been acquired in 1950. [4] [5]
References
[edit]- ^ Walsh & Lowe p.2
- ^ Bowron & Kerber p.60
- ^ Bowron & Kerber p.60
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-seventh-earl-of-northampton-5282
- ^ https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/124
Bibliography
[edit]- Bowron, Edgar Peters & Kerber, Peter Björn. Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-century Rome. Yale University Press, 2007.
- Walsh, E.G. & Lowe, Mary. The English Whippet. Coch-y-Bonddu Books, 2004.
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