FRANCESCO MONTEMEZZANO (VERONA 1555-AFTER 1602 VENICE)

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03.07.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1248163
Lot 156 | FRANCESCO MONTEMEZZANO (VERONA 1555-AFTER 1602 VENICE)
FRANCESCO MONTEMEZZANO (VERONA 1555-AFTER 1602 VENICE)
Portrait of a lady, traditionally identified as a member of the Morosini family of St Formos, three-quarter-length, in a black gown and gold-trimmed white partlet, holding a pair of gloves
oil on canvas
41 ½ x 32 ¾ in. (105.5 x 83.4 cm.)




Provenance

Morosini collection, Palazzo Morosini, Venice, from whom acquired by the following,
George Augustus Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (1821-1891), 3 Grafton Street, W.1., and Brownsea Island; his sale (†), 11 July 1891 (=4th day), lot 634, as 'Pordonone' (33 gns. to Mills).
Ruth Evelyn Burns, née Cavendish-Bentinck (1883-1978) and Walter Spencer Burns (1872-1929), North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, and by descent to their son,
Major General Sir Walter Arthur George Burns (1911-1997), and by inheritance to the present owner.



Exhibited

London, The New Gallery, Exhibition of Venetian Art, 1894-5, no. 66, as 'Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone', lent by W.G. Cavendish-Bentinck.
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