Corrado Giaquinto Mid 18th.Century Neapolitan School Red Chalk Study

Corrado Giaquinto Mid 18th.Century Neapolitan School Red Chalk StudyCorrado Giaquinto 1703 1766 Neapolitan School Mid 18th. Century Red chalk drawing on blue grey laid paper. Study of a figure with an outstretched arm. Faint pencil inscription lower left "di corrado," further drawing to reverse, a study of a sleeping figure touched by an Angel. Slight waterstain to right hand side, light foxing and creasing to sheet to no real detriment. 26. 5 by 19. 8 cms. Born in Molfetta, near Bari, Giaquinto trained in Naples and

There are similar examples by this very accomplished watercolourist to be found in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

for the weakness of which there was neither taste nor knowledge to compensate'

He first exhibited in 1783 and his subjects are almost always drawn from country and sporting life

Circle of John Downman A

Private Collection UK

She married her first cousin Captain Sir William Bolton on 18th May 1803 at the Piccadilly home of Emma Hamilton

draughtsman and drypoint printmaker

on the morning of Thursday

Male nude study

After a composition by Jusepe De Ribera " Lo Spagnoletto" 1590-1652

graduating in 1936

Study of an elegant female wearing an evening gown