A bust length, three-quarter profile turned to the sitter’s proper left against a plain dark background. He wears a red jacket with buttons and a lace trimmed white cravat. A powered wig is tied in dark blue at the back of his neck
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Sir Horace Mann and Portrait of Horace Mann
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: Portrait of Sir Horace Mann, half-length., In a contemporary gilt Italian frame as displayed at Strawberry Hill., and Signed and dated on verso: Horace Mann. Resident of Florence. By Astley. 1751.
SH Views Un58 no. 17 Framed, shelved in LFS Bin 51
Image Count:
3
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A view of the north front of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, with horses grazing on the left and two riders and a carriage passing before the walls on the right
Description:
Title from ms. note on verso., Note on verso, signed "G.E.": "North front of Strawberry Hill, corresponding almost exactly to the print by R.B. Godfrey that appears in A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, vol. ii, p. 399. There is a tradition that these [illegible] on copper came from the Tribune of H.W. of Strawberry Hill, in [were?] subsequently purc[hased] at Ld. Northbrook's sale in 1910. [Signed] G.E.", Ownership by Horace Walpole questionable., and After the print by R.B. Godfrey that appears in A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784, opp. p. 1, after William Marlow's watercolor.
A caricature conversation depicting fourteen men gathered in a large room with a tessellated marble floor. At the left an Abbé, possibly Anton Maria Bisconi, is seated on a pile of folio volumes of the Vocabolario degli Accademici della Crusca. He holds a copy of Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno, a burlesque poem by various authors much in fashion at the time. Horace Mann is seated in a large ceremonial chair ornamented with the English Crown supported by the Lion and Unicorn. At the center of the composition, Lord Cowper sits with his back to the table of men gathered around Mann. Cowper converses with a man who may be the Earl of Moray. Six caricature portraits hang on the left and back walls of the room. The largest is a portrait of the artist Patch as a satyr. According to Watson, the chair and the servant’s livery suggest that the scene may be Mann’s house
Alternative Title:
Gathering at Sir Horace Mann's house
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Some identifications based on drawings published by Watson: F.J.B. Watson, “Thomas Patch (1725-1782): Notes on his Life Together with a Catalogue of his Known Works,“ Walpole Society, 1939-1940. XXVII, pp. 15-50.
A caricature conversation group portrait depicting a gathering in the studio of the amateur artist Henry William Bunbury. Bunbury is seated at a round table in the center. The man presenting arms to him is Captain Walcott. At the right, wearing a tricorne hat is Captain Elliott. Patch is seated at his easel in the background and is painting the commmedia dell-arte character Puchinello. On the left, a servant holding back a curtain for an arriving guest has been identified as Valentino, Servitore di Piazza. Two paintings hang on the back wall. One to the left is a view of King’s College Cambridge. The other a figure and a horse
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Inscribed on verso: Henry Wm. Bunbury Rome 1770, aetat suae 20"., and Identifications are based on drawings published by W.B. Watson, “Thomas Patch, Some new light on his work” Apollo (May 1967), 348-353.
A caricature conversation depicting twelve men gathered at Sir Horace Mann’s house in Florence. A numbered key at lower right identifies most the twelve men. From left to right they are. 1. Mr. Pieters [Pieters], 2 Sir H. Mann, 3. Mr Trail [Rev. James Trail], 4. Capt. Bartie [Berie], 5. Mr. Althorp, 6. [Sir Williams Wynn], 7. Ld. Cowper, 8, Ld. Neauchamp, 9. Ld. Barkley [Berkeley], 10. Mr. Farmer [Turner], 11. [Abbe] P. (or B)illori, 12. [Patch]. The artist is carrying on his back a basket of volumes of the Vocabularia della Crusca. The paintings haning on the walls include at left: The Tower of Babel, and at center a group portrait of the Academia in session, flanked on either side by pictures referring to the “Crusca.”
LWL Ptg. 102 Framed, on view in Administration Area
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View of the Ponte Lucano and the Mausoleo dei Plauzi, or the tomb of the Plautius family, located near Tivoli in Italy. The rural scene is populated with figures both at work and leisure. Patch painted this type of scene for English grand tourists
Alternative Title:
Italianate river landscape and Italian riverscape
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: An Italianate River Landscape.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy and Tivoli.
Subject (Name):
Mausoleo dei Plauzi (Tivoli, Italy),
Subject (Topic):
Mausoleums, Bridges, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Rivers, and Ruins
A woodcutter dressed in tattered clothing is seated on the right in a wooded meadow landscape with hills in the distance. A clay pipe is stuck in a buttonhole of his coat. The woodcutter holds the handle of a shovel resting between legs. A scythe and pickax lie at his feet. A young boy dressed in green sits to the left on the foundation of a rudimentary structure and a rock wall. A curly-haired dog lies at his feet. Behind him a large ax leans against the post of a thatched structure. The two appear to be sharing a meal. The woodcutter balances a mug on his knee. A small wooden barrel with bread is visible in the right foreground. A basket of fruit sits on the ground between them while the boy holds a hat filled with apples on his lap
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Signed by the artist in lower left: Gill pinx/Bath.
View of a stone bridge from the riverbank. A covered barge with passenger punts in the river while a single figure punts in a small boat. The treed landscape is populated with many figures: among them is a small group with a dog occupies the on the near shore near a docked boat. A rider on horseback crosses the bridge. In the distance, the ruins of a large stone structure. Horses and sheet graze on the lawn
Description:
Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Signed by the artist on the skiff: M. Rooker pinx.
Veritcal landscape with a large maple tree in fall foliage at the end of a field somewhere in Farmington
Description:
Title from appraisal report. and Signed with initials, dated illegibly, and inscribed "Farmington" in lower right; in a gilt molded frame, Moyer Gallery label on verso.