Giuseppe Tominz – Isaac de Parente

Giuseppe Tominz (Gorizia 1790 – Gradiscutta 1866) Portrait of Aron Isaak de Parente after 1847 Oil on canvas, 225 x 112 cm   Active in Trieste from as early as the mid-16th century, the Parente family – like the Morpurgos, the Luzzattos and the della Vidas – were part of a group of Jewish families…

Carlo de Paris – View of Pico de Orizaba

Carlo de Paris Barcellona 1800-Rome 1861 View del Pico de Orizaba (or CitlaltĂ©petl) in Mexco 1853 oil on canvas, 124,5 x 175 cm Bibliography: S. Grandesso, in A Picture Gallery in the Italian Tradition of the Quadreria (1750-1850), exh. cat., New York, Sperone Westwater, 2013, in collaboration with Galleria Carlo Virgilio & Co, Rome 2012,…

Ennio Belsito – The Lady Singer

Ennio Belsito (news between 1901 and 1948) The Lady Singer 1910-1915 ca. Oil on canvas, 189 x 90 cm Signed, lower left: “E. Belsito” Backside, label of the Prima Esposizione Iternazionale d’Arte Coloniale, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1931, with title: “La cantatrice”   Bibliography SocietĂ  degli Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti in Roma. LXXIX…

Johannes Lingelbach – Popular life in Piazza del Popolo

Johannes Lingelbach (Franckfurt am Mein 1622 – Amsterdam 1674), Popular life in Piazza del Popolo, 1660 ca., oil on copper, cm 60 x 82, provenance: lawyer Giorgio Balella collection, Rome; Antiquario Costantini, Rome; private collection, Rome, bibliography: Busiri Vici 1959, pp. 48-49, tav. VIII, 1-2; Burger-Wegener 1976, p. 240, cat. 36; Die holländischen Gemälde 1992, p. 254, nota…

Anton von Maron – Portrait of Thomas Jenkins

Anton von Maron (Vienna 1731 – Rome 1808) Portrait of Thomas Jenkins (1722-98) oil on canvas, 86 x 65 cm 1775-80 ca. Inscribed lower left: Thomas Jenkins Esquer [sic] Rome, provenance: Londra, Colnaghi, 1960 circa; Lucca, Hugh Honour collection Three particularly interesting points converge in the portrait being introduced here once again: stylistic, historical, and…