Pompeo Batoni

Portrait of Stephen Beckingham (1730 or 1731-1813)

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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Marilyn Schiff

Pompeo Batoni

Lucca 1708 - 1787 Rome

Portrait of Stephen Beckingham (1730 or 1731-1813)

signed, dated, and inscribed on a label on the stretcher: Stephen Beckingham / Pompeo Batoni Pinxit / Romae 1752

oil on canvas

canvas: 38 ¾ by 28 ¾ in.; 98.4 by 73.0 cm.

framed: 48 ½ by 38 ½ in.; 123.2 by 97.8 cm.

Painted in Rome for Stephen Beckingham VI (1730 or 1731-1813), 1752, and then brought to London;

Thence by descent to his daughter, the Hon. Dorothy Charlotte Montagu (1766-1821);

Thence by inheritance to Catherine Gregorie Brickdale (1788-1870);

Thence by descent to her son, Mathew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale (1817-1894), Quantock Farm, Somerset;

Thence by descent to his son, Charles Fortescue-Brickdale (1857-1944);

Thence by descent to his son, Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale (1890-1969);

Thence transferred to the Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale Will Trust;

By whom sold ("The Property of the Matthew Fortescue-Brickdale Will Trust"), London, Christie's, 22 November 1985, lot 119;

With Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, 1986;

Acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, circa 1998.

A.M. Clark, in Pompeo Batoni, A.M. Clark (ed.), Oxford 1985, p. 254, cat. no. 164, reproduced fig. 154;

M. Rutenberg, in An Aspect of Collecting Taste, exhibition catalogue, New York 1986, pp. 29-30, cat. no. 9, reproduced;

B. Ford and J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, New Haven 1997, p. 73;

E.P. Bowron, in Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, E.P. Bowron and J.J. Rishel (eds.), Philadelphia 2000, p. 299;

I. Mcintyre, Joshua Reynolds, The Life and Times of the First President of the Royal Academy, London 2003, p. 49 note;

E. Debenedetti, "Un'idea di Roma, 1750-1823, La linea teorica dell'architettura," in Architetti e ingegneri a confronto, I, l'immagine di Roma fra Clemente XIII e Pio VII, E. Debenedetti (ed.), Rome 2006, p. 16;

E.P. Bowron and P.B. Kerber, in Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome, exhibition catalogue, E.P. Bowron and P.B. Kerber (eds.), New Haven 2007, p. 38;

L. Barroero, "Non solo 'Milordi'. La società romana nei ritratti di Batoni," in Pompeo Batoni, 1708-1787, L'Europa delle Corti e il Grand Tour, exhibition catalogue, L. Barroero and F. Mazzocca (eds.), Milan 2008, p. 86;

E.P. Bowron, Pompeo Batoni, A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London 2016, vol. I, pp. 181-182, cat. no. 157, reproduced.