Inscribed
Inscribed in ink, bottom left Di Teodoro Vivarini f Olandese; in ink 28, in red ink 159; in ink 'F'verso: pencil inscription Di Teodoro Vevares f
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen, grey wash; double ink framing lines247 x 330
Hand
François Vivares (attributed to)
Notes
This is a copy after a seascape in the tradition of Claude Lorrain (1600-82). Despite the inscription on the verso and recto, which reads 'Teodoro', this drawing is likely to be by French artist François Vivares (1709-80) who worked for Robert Adam on both The Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro (1764) and The Works in Architecture (1773). Vivares was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain (c.1710-c.1771), which may represent a further Adam connection (see Adam vol.56/27 and 28 if they are attributable to Chatelain and not Paul Sandby). Vivares was distinguished for his copies after Claude and this drawing may be an adaptation of a work in the Adam collection. In the 1818 Adam sale (Catalogue of A Valuable Collection of Antique Sculpture etc. R. Adam, Christie's, London, 21 & 22 May 1818), lot 11 was described as 'Claude, An Italian landscape with buildings and figures in the manner of', although this is unlikely to have been the source for the current drawing (see Watkin (ed.) Sale Catalogues of Libraries of Eminent Persons, Vol. 4, Architects (London, 1972), p.162).Two inscriptions on the recto of Adam vol.56/159 and 160 are in the same hand, as is that on the verso of 56/160.
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