Federico Bartolini

John Welles Hollenback, New York (according to an inscription on the reverse)

Hollenback (1827-1923) was an American financier and philanthropist and had extensive business and mining interests in Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. He lived most of the time with his daughter Emily Hollenback Taylor in Wilkes-Barre but also had a mansion on Washington Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. As a wealthy family they made frequent grand tours of Europe and traveled extensively in the United States, mostly in the West. It may have been on one of these journeys that he purchased the present work.