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| Anonymous Italian Artist St Sebastian (left-hand panel of diptych) ca. 1480-1520 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist St Roch (right-hand panel of diptych) ca. 1480-1520 oil on panel York City Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist St Hugh ca. 1525-1600 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Portrait of the Protonotary Giovanni Giuliano ca. 1530-40 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist working in Venice The Entombment 16th century oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Youth playing a Violin 16th century oil on canvas National Trust, Attingham Park, Shropshire |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist St John the Baptist ca. 1635-60 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist working in Bologna St Cecilia 17th century oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Judith with the Head of Holofernes 17th century oil on canvas Temple Newsam House, Leeds |
Though detailed provenances for most of the paintings in this group are not readily available, their path from Italy to Britain was likely similar – acquired by wealthy Grand Tourists as souvenirs, and believed by their new northern owners to have originated from the hand of one or another big-name dead Italian artist. Thereafter proudly displayed and revered at home as Raphaels, as Titians, as Guercinos, as Caravaggios. Gradually, by gift or bequest or purchase, the pictures would have migrated from private families to public collections of one sort or another, where they received the severer scrutiny of curators and art historians. At that point the assigned famous-artist-name would in each case have been stripped away by force – either for lack of evidence or for obvious inaptness – and the works consigned to a limbo-land of the still-beautiful but relatively insignificant.
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| Anonymous Italian Artist The Lamentation 17th century oil on canvas Bridgwater Town Hall, Somerset |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist working in Rome St Bruno praying before a Crucifix ca. 1650-1700 oil on canvas Christ Church, University of Oxford |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Samson and Delilah 17th century oil on canvas Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Pietà 17th century oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist River God 17th century oil on canvas Temple Newsam House, Leeds |
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| Anonymous Italian Artist Cleopatra dissolving the Pearl ca. 1795-1805 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |