Adrien Manglard

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. Restoration to this work is good for the most part and should be retained. There is a restoration in the blue sky near the darker of the two towers on the right side which is slightly discolored. A couple of other discolored spots can be seen in the upper right and in a line to the left of the masts of the sailboat on the left side. If these restorations were corrected, the work could be hung in its current condition. There are only a few other isolated spots of retouching in the sky and in the water to a lesser degree. The lining is effective, and the work is in good condition overall.
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Adrien Manglard received his early training in Lyon under local artist, Frère Imbert.  At the age of twenty he moved to Rome where he worked in the studio of Bernardino Fergioni and quickly progressed in the city’s artistic circles.  Manglard’s marine paintings, combining the idealized, Calssical landscapes of Claude Lorraine with the acute realism of Northern models, achieved great acclaim and the patronage not only of the foremost families in Roman society such the Orsini, Chigi, Colonna, Rondanini, and Rospigliosi but also of esteemed figures of the nobility including Victor Amedeus II, Duke of Savoy and King of Piedmont and Filippo Bordone, Duke of Parma who commissioned some 140 paintings by the artist.