Oratio Gentileschi, pictor [art original]

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Title: Oratio Gentileschi, pictor [art original]
Alternative Title: Orazio Gentileschi
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Orazio Gentileschi (1563-639), Pisan-born painter, whose style was influenced by Caravaggio after they met in 1600. Gentileschi moved to London in 1626 at the invitation of George Villiers, first duke of Buckingham, the favourite and chief minister of Charles I from whom he received a pension
Description: Title from inscription in ink below image.
Drawing that was later used for an engraving published in : Anecdotes of painting in England, with some account of the principal artists / by Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Farmer, 1762, v. 3, opp. p. 113.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Purchased by Horace Walpole from Vertue's widow. Sold to Evans at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii.122. Purchased by Wilmarth S. Lewis from Drake, December 1949.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 15.2 x 13 cm, on sheet 18.7 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Crayon drawings British 18th century
Material: red crayon and red wash with corrections in black ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gentileschi, Orazio, 1563-1638?,
Subject (Topic): Artists
Italian
Subjects: Gentileschi, Orazio, 1563-1638?
Artists > Italian
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, Oratio Gentileschi, Pictor. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.