Live Auction 22308Remastered: Old Masters from the Collection of J.E. Safra - Selling Without Reserve
ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1770
Lot 1

ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1770

Portrait of a sculptor, standing full length, resting his arm on an urn and holding a hammer

Closed6 July 2023

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GBP 1,638

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1770
Portrait of a sculptor, standing full length, resting his arm on an urn and holding a hammer
with inscription 'More Giocobbe' (verso)
black and white chalk with pen and black ink on blue-green prepared paper
19 3/8 x 13 3/4 in. (49.3 x 35 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2000, lot 94, when acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Stylistically this intriguing and elegant drawing appears to be by a British artist working in Rome in the 1770s. The inscription on the verso seems to refer to the Scottish-born landscape painter Jacob More (1740-1793), whose self-portrait, painted in Rome in 1783, is in the Uffizi (see 'Gli Uffizi', catalogo generale, Firenze, 1979, p. 938, cat. A617), but no portrait drawings of this type by him are known.