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| Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Isabella Brant (the artist's first wife) 1621-22 drawing British Museum |
This is the final group of European master drawings acquired by the fashionable Georgian portrait-painter Jonathan Richardson Senior (1667-1745) and now preserved at the British Museum. Scholars and historians raise united voices praising the self-evident perception of this long-ago connoisseur.
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| Guercino St Francis 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Antonio Maria Zanetti Studies of women's heads 1721 drawing British Museum |
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| Giacinto Brandi Figure of a saint 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Salvator Rosa Tamar and Judah ca. 1660-65 drawing British Museum |
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| Salvator Rosa Figure study ca. 1660-65 drawing British Museum |
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| Salvator Rosa Figure study mid 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Salvator Rosa Figure study 1650s drawing British Museum |
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| circle of Lodovico Carracci Ecclesiastics and crippled man late 16th-early 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Bearded man from above mid 17th century drawing British Museum |
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| Parmigianino Studies for an allegorical figure of Fortitude carrying a column early 16th century drawing British Museum |
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| Pordenone Figure study for the Lamentation ca. 1522 drawing British Museum |
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| Federico Zuccaro Praying Monk 16th century drawing British Museum |
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| Carlo Maratta Figure carrying torches 17th century drawing British Museum |
I am grateful to the British Museum for making these images available.