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SM P141. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
Francesco Zuccarelli RA (1702 - 1788)
A Landscape with classical figures
c.1712 - 88
Oil on canvas
Height: 43.5cm, sight size
Width: 58.5cm, sight size
Width: 58.5cm, sight size
Museum number: P141
Not on display
Provenance
Purchased by Soane at Christie's 17 January 1800, Lot 81 in the sale of a Collection of Cabinet Pictures lately consigned from the Continent also a small collection of capital pictures the property of a Gentleman of Fashion..... Zuccarelli. A landscape with Italian peasants, a pleasing and elegant composition. Lot 81 is endorsed Soane £15.4.6. The 1840 inventory of paintings in the Soane collection says that this picture was formerly in the collection of William Beckford (1759-1844), whose vast collection at Fonthill was acquired with wealth generated by sugar produced by the enslaved people working on his Caribbean sugar plantations. The sale catalogue of 1800 (Soane Archive) has the name 'Foxhall' recorded alongside Soane's name as the buyer. It is possible that this records Edward Foxhall acting as agent for one of William Beckford senior's pictures being sold through him.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, pp. 15 and 48
Soane, Description, 1835, p. 20
Susan Feinberg Millenson, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1987, p.78
Thornton and Dorey, A Miscellany of objects from Sir John Soane's Museum, 1992, p.125
New Description, 2007, pp. 31 and 97
Soane, Description, 1835, p. 20
Susan Feinberg Millenson, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1987, p.78
Thornton and Dorey, A Miscellany of objects from Sir John Soane's Museum, 1992, p.125
New Description, 2007, pp. 31 and 97
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