Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Devotional Paintings Collected by George III (1738-1820)

Annibale Carracci
Madonna and sleeping Christ Child (called Il Silenzio)
ca. 1599
oil on canvas
(purchased in Rome by Richard Dalton for George III in 1766)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

follower of David Teniers the Younger after Annibale Carracci
St Francis
ca. 1660-1700
oil on canvas
(acquired from an unknown source by George III)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Guido Reni
Virgin with sleeping Child
ca. 1637-38
oil on canvas
(acquired from an unknown source by George III)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

workshop of Guido Reni
St Sebastian
ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
(acquired from an unknown source by George III)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pietro Liberi
Holy Family
ca. 1680-87
oil on canvas
(acquired by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

follower of Guercino
The Woman of Samaria
ca. 1660-1715
oil on canvas
(acquired by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giuseppe Bottani
The Flight into Egypt
1763
oil on canvas
(possibly acquired by George III through Richard Dalton in Rome)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Francesco Zuccarelli
Landscape with the Finding of Moses
1768
oil on canvas
(probably commissioned in London by George III)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Anonymous copyist after Carlo Maratti
The Visitation
ca. 1650-1750
oil on canvas
(acquired from an unknown source by George III)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Anonymous copyist after Raphael
Holy Family in a Landscape
ca. 1650-1725
oil on panel
(acquired from an unknown source by George III)
Royal Collection, Great Britain
 
Anonymous copyist after Peter Paul Rubens
Christ in the House of Simon
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
(acquired by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Sebastiano Ricci after Paolo Veronese
The Magdalen anointing Christ's feet
ca. 1720-30
oil on canvas
(acquired by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

attributed to Valentin Lefèvre after Paolo Veronese
Christ in the House of Simon
ca. 1660-80
oil on canvas
(acquired by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pieter Neefs the Elder
Interior of Antwerp Cathedral by Day
ca. 1640
oil on panel
(acquired by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Pieter Neefs the Elder
Interior of Antwerp Cathedral by Night
ca. 1640
oil on panel
(acquired by George III from the collection of Joseph Smith, British Consul at Venice)
Royal Collection, Great Britain