Mid-18th-Century Tuscan School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding A Letter

Mid-18th-Century Tuscan School, Portrait Of A Gentleman Holding A LetterThis eloquent mid 18th century Italian portrait, painted in Tuscany around 1750, portrays an upstanding gentleman of intellect and composure. Acquired from a country house in Pescia, a prosperous silk town between Lucca and Florence, it evokes the cultivated restraint of Italys Enlightenment age. Dressed in a fine ensemble consisting of a brown silk coat trimmed with gold brocade, a waistcoat woven with intricate floral arabesques, and a crisp white

Lips are poised to speak

Her spirited oeuvre is bustling with vibrant colours and rhythm

women would often receive less per painting than their male counterparts

which he helped to initiate

he was forced to move away from engineering following an accident

was a successful writer and the pair collaborated on several publications

A river opens up into a picturesque lake with trees and several buildings

Droochsloot hailed from Utrecht and became a valued painter of landscapes

Its warm graduated tints shift from yellow to ochre - its fire dramatised with impasto

14” x 16” / 35cm x 41cm

1860-1938) depicts a young mother leaning over a crib

Our reference: BRV1717