ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENICE 1673-1757)

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£ 20 000
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04.07.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 991590
Lot 46 | ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENICE 1673-1757)
ROSALBA CARRIERA (VENICE 1673-1757)

Presumed portrait of Robert, Lord Fairfax

pastel, heightened with bodycolour, on paper laid down on canvas

59.5 x 47.4 cm (23 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.)





Provenance

By inheritance through the presumed sitter’s second wife, Dorothy (died 1750), daughter of the brewer Mawdesley Best of Chilston, Kent, and sister of James Best, father of George Best of Chilston, father of Dorothy Best, wife of the Rev. Joseph George Brett (1790-1852) and mother of William Balliol Brett, 1st Viscount Esher (1815-1899); by descent to the present owner.
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