* Conrad Martin Metz Bonn 1745/9 - 1827 Rome

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Description

Conrad Martin Metz
hippolytus dragged to his death on the sea-shore, with neptune looking on, riding a sea-bull
signed and dated in brown ink, lower right: C.M. Metz/ Roma 1820
pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on paper prepared brown;
bears illegible inscription in black chalk, upper right

Provenance

The Hon. Robert Otway-Cave (1796-1844), and his wife Sophia Otway-Cave (née Burdett), to whom the inscription on the mount refers

Catalogue Note

Metz was born in Bonn, but was a pupil of Bartolozzi in London, before becoming a Royal Academician. A painter and engraver, he concentrated particularly on religious subjects, and in 1802 left for Rome, where he was to engrave Michelangelo's Last Judgement.