William Fermor
William Fermor
- Artist
- Pompeo Batoni
- Artist Dates
- 1708-1787
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- William Fermor
- Date
- 1758
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 99.4 x 73.1 cm (39-1/8 x 28-7/8 in)
- K Number
- K1959
- Repository
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Accession Number
- 61.76
- Notes
Provenance
Baroness Donington, née Maud Kemble [1847-1947], London. Mrs. Emmott; (her sale, Christie's, London, 2 April 1948, no. 69); Young; A. B. Ramsay, Cambridge. (sale, Sotheby’s, 7 May 1952, no. 111); (David Koetser Gallery); [1] sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 20 February 1953; gift 1961 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, no 61.76. [1] Annotated sales catalogue in National Gallery of Art library.
Catalogue Entry
Pompeo Batoni
William Fermor
K1959
Houston, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts (61-75), since 1953.(1) Canvas. 39 1/8 x 28 7/8 in. (99.4 x 73.1 cm.). Inscribed on the back: POMPEO BATTONI FECIT 1758. Very good condition; cleaned 1953. In the same year, 1758, Batoni painted another young Englishman in Rome, Lord Brudenell, whose beautiful portrait, now in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch at Broughton House, Kettering,(2) offers a stylistic parallel to K1959. A costume of the same style as the one worn by the young man in K1959 appears in Batoni's portrait of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.(3) Provenance: Private Collection, England. David M. Koetser's, New York. Kress acquisition, 1953.
References
(1) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1953, no. 29, as Batoni. (2) Reproduced by I. B. Barsali, catalogue of exhibition 'Pompeo Batoni,' Lucca, 1967, no. 32. (3) Reproduced by J. Steegman, in Burlington Magazine, vol. LXXXVIII, 1946, p. 61, pl. IV, D.