Allegory of Painting
attributed to Charles Lucy (London 1692 - ?Rome after 1768)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1760
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1016 x 762 mm (40 x 30 in)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533914
Caption
Charles Lucy was a pupil of Cignani (1628-1719), a Bolognese, Baroque artist and a cousin of the Lucy family of Charlecote. He worked mostly in Rome. He undertook to make various copies and pastiches of Old Masters for George Lucy (1714-86), who had visited Rome whilst on his Grand Tour. It appears that George Lucy was also paying him an annual grant.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Allegory of Painting, attributed to Charles Lucy (fl. Rome 1758), in the manner Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), 1760. Three figures in an artist studio. A young male figure is standing, wearing a white and red smock draped in green. He is looking towards a seated young female figure and has his right arm around her shoulders. She is wearing a white and gold dress and is draped in blue. Her hair is tied up in a braid with stones. She is looking towards the male. In her left hand she is holding a paint pallet and she has a paint brush in her right hand. A putti or cherub is seated at her feet reclining on stone sculptures (a bust and a stone foot). He is holding a paintbrush and a tablet. The young man has a paintbrush in his left hand as if working on the painting of a young lady that sits on an easel to his left side. In the background is an elaborate stone carving. Framed in a contemporary giltwood Maratta frame. Companion piece to Allegory of Reason: Mathematics and Geometry (NT 533915).
Provenance
On loan from Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, 6th Bt (b. 1945)
Makers and roles
attributed to Charles Lucy (London 1692 - ?Rome after 1768), artist manner of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca 1708 – Rome 1787), artist circle of Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), artist