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Salvator Rosa (Arenella 1615-1673 Rome)
Lot 199 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER WARD-JACKSON (196-201)

Salvator Rosa (Arenella 1615-1673 Rome)

A rocky landscape with figures by a river

Closed10 July 2015

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GBP 15,000–20,000

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Salvator Rosa (Arenella 1615-1673 Rome)
A rocky landscape with figures by a river
signed with monogram 'SR' (lower right)
oil on canvas
19½ x 26¼ in. (49.5 x 66.7 cm.)
in an 18th-century English guilloché frame

(Probably) acquired by Ralph Howard, later 1st Viscount Wicklow (1724-1786), when in Rome in 1751-2, and by descent through the Earls of Wicklow, Shelton Abbey, Arklow, Ireland.
with G.A. Tooth Ltd., London (according to a label on the reverse).

Specialist note

This rugged landscape is a characteristic work by Rosa from the second half of the 1650s. The pendant was in the collection of the late Ralph Edwards, C.B.E.