Jacopo Amigoni

Probably commissioned by Charles Bennet (1697-1753), 2nd Earl of Tankerville, for the decoration of his house in St. James's Square, London, 1730;

Dr. Ephram I. Schapiro, London, by 1951;

By whose estate sold ("The Property of the Late Dr. E.I. Schapiro, sold by order of the executors"), London, Christie's, 30 March 1979, lot 13;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 14 December 1990, lot 29;

Where acquired.

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Birmingham, Museum and Art Gallery, Eighteenth Century Venice, 3 January - 18 April 1951, no. 1 (lent by Dr. E. Schapiro);

Kingston-upon-Hill, Ferens Art Gallery, Venetian Baroque and Rococo, 28 October - 2 December 1967, no. 1 (lent by Dr. E. Schapiro).

F.J.B. Watson, Eighteenth Century Venice, exhibition catalogue, London 1951, p. 11, cat. no. 1;

M.R. Scherer, The Legends of Troy in Art and Architecture, New York 1964, p. 249;

Exhibition of Venetian Baroque & Rococo Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Kingston-upon-Hull 1967, p. 7, cat. no. 1;

E. Martini, La pittura del Settecento Veneto, Udine 1982, p. 484, reproduced fig. 435;

L. Griffin Hennessey, Jacopo Amigoni (c.1685-1752): An Artistic Biography with a Catalogue of his Venetian Paintings, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas 1983, p. 51 note 2.