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1. [A group in the artist's studio in Florence] [art original]
- Creator:
- Patch, Thomas, 1725-1782, artist
- Published / Created:
- [ca. 1770]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 141 Framed, shelved in UFS Rack 3A
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A caricature conversation group portrait depicting a gathering in the studio of the amateur artist Henry William Bunbury. Bunbury is seated at a round table in the center. The man presenting arms to him is Captain Walcott. At the right, wearing a tricorne hat is Captain Elliott. Patch is seated at his easel in the background and is painting the commmedia dell-arte character Puchinello. On the left, a servant holding back a curtain for an arriving guest has been identified as Valentino, Servitore di Piazza. Two paintings hang on the back wall. One to the left is a view of King’s College Cambridge. The other a figure and a horse
- Description:
- Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal., Inscribed on verso: Henry Wm. Bunbury Rome 1770, aetat suae 20"., and Identifications are based on drawings published by W.B. Watson, “Thomas Patch, Some new light on his work” Apollo (May 1967), 348-353.
- Subject (Name):
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A group in the artist's studio in Florence] [art original]