Giuseppe Bonito

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

Giuseppe Bonito
Portrait of the composer Niccolò Jommelli (1714 - 1774), half- length, in a blue coat and satin waistcoat
oil on canvas
93.4 by 73.2cm.; 36¾ by 28¾in.

Provenance

Anonymous sale, London, Bonham's, 7 July 2010, lot 46, for £12,000, where acquired by the present owner.

Catalogue Note

The sitter was a celebrated and much travelled composer from Naples. He was active in many Italian cities and went as far as Vienna and later Stuttgart where he was Kapellmeister to Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg (1728-1793).