ID 960883
Los 165 | GAVIN HAMILTON (1723-1798)
Schätzwert
£ 40 000 – 60 000
The Death of Lucretia
oil on canvas
82 7/8 x 107 1/4 in. (210.5 x 272.5 cm.)
Provenance
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.
Literature
R. Rosenblum, 'Gavin Hamilton's Brutus and its Aftermath', Burlington Magazine, CIII, 1961, pp. 8-16.
D. Irwin, 'Gavin Hamilton: Archaeologist, Painter and Dealer' The Art Bulletin, 44, No. 2, June 1962, p. 96, fig. 14.
D. Irwin, English Neo-Classical Art, London, 1966, p. 11, no. 16, illustrated.
R. Rosenblum, Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art, Princeton, 1967, pp. 69, 162, fig. 70.
H. Honour, Neo-classicism, London, 1968, p. 147, fig. 77.
R. Rosenblum, 'A Source for David's Horatii', Burlington Magazine, CXII, 1970, pp. 269-273, discusses the composition in general.
J.L. Williams, Gavin Hamilton 1723-1798, Edinburgh, 1994, pp. 11-12.
E.P. Bowron and J.J. Rishel (ed.), Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia and London, 2000, under no. 231, pp. 381-2.
D. Dawson and P. Morère (ed.), Scotland and France in the Enlightenment, Lewisburg and London, 2004, pp. 129, 131.
Exhibited
London, Kenwood House, British Artists in Rome, 1700-1800, 1974, no. 72.
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