Painted panel
Biagio Rebecca (Osimo 1735 - London 1808)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oil paint on paper
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
NT 618743.4
Summary
Oil on paper, grisaille panels of William Shakespeare by Biagio Rebecca ARA (1738-1808). Part of the decorative scheme of the ceiling 618672. One of eight portrait medallions depicting famous Englishmen of letters. From the fireplace reading clockwise Matthew Prior, John Milton, Alexander Pope, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon and Joseph Addison.
Provenance
Architectural features both internal and external including decorative schemes and fixtures all accepted in lieu of death-duties, along with the buildings and estate, and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Makers and roles
Biagio Rebecca (Osimo 1735 - London 1808), photographer