Soldiers and Banditti resting, conversing and climbing on Rocks
manner of Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on oak panel
Measurements
419 x 318 mm (16 1/2 x 12 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872525
Summary
Oil painting on oak panel, Soldiers and Banditti resting, conversing and climbing on Rocks, manner of Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), probably Italian, 18th century. One of two pictures depicting soldiers resting on rocks. A group of a dozen soldiers, wearing armour breastplates, helmets, etc., are resting on the side of a rock; some are in conversation with one another and gesticulating, two are climbing the rocks.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Marks and inscriptions
Lower left, on a rock: SR monogram
Makers and roles
manner of Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), artist previously catalogued as by Italian School, artist previously catalogued as school of Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), artist
References
Saltram 1819 Catalogue of the Pictures, Casts and Busts belonging to the Earl of Morley at Saltram [Frances Talbot, Countess of Morley], Plymouth 1819, p.8, No.19 or p.10, No.29 Saltram 1844 Catalogue of the Pictures, Casts and Busts belonging to the Earl of Morley, at Saltram [Frances Talbot, Dowager, Countess of Morley], London 1844, p.8, No.24 or p.9, in the Red Drawing Room, No.28 Saltram 1902 Catalogue of Pictures at Saltram and 31 Prince's Gardens 1902, , p.5, No.18 or p.7, No.22, at Saltram, in the Red Room Saltram House. An Inventory and Valuation of that Portion of the Contents NOT being taken by The Commissioners of Inland Revenue, February 1957, p.97, in the Red Room Saltram, Devon, 1967 The Saltram Collection, Plympton, Devon [National Trust; F. St. John Gore], 1967, in the Morning Room, p.19, no.17, or p.20, no.20 Saltram, Devon, 1981: [National Trust; Dudley Dodd], 1981, Appendix: list of paintings, in the Morning Room, p.71