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1. Oratio Gentileschi, pictor [art original]
- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3664.25
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- 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
- Alternative Title:
- Orazio Gentileschi
- 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., and George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
- Subject (Name):
- Gentileschi, Orazio, 1563-1638?,
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists and Italian
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Oratio Gentileschi, pictor [art original]
