John Chute (1701-1776)
Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1673 - Venice 1757)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
10 Jul 1741 (inscribed and dated)
Materials
Pen and brown ink over traces of pencil on paper
Measurements
203 x 140 mm (8 x 5 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Venice
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 718722
Summary
Pen and brown ink (faded) drawing over traces of pencil on paper, John Chute (1701-1776) by Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1675 - Venice 1757), inscribed: K Chute Li 10 Lugli: 1741 and inscribed on the back with John Chute's name and date 1741. This is a rare drawing (as opposed to pastel) by the Venetian female artist. It was executed while Chute was in Venice with Thomas Gray and his cousin Francis Whithed of whom there is a pastel by the same artist at the Vyne. It was formerly owned by Horace Walpole of Strawberry Hill whom he had jsut been with at Reggio. John Chute's movements in Italy in 1741 are fairly well charted: "In Short Notes of my life, Horace Walpole wrote: "in May 1741 we went to the fair at Reggio. There Mr Gray left me, going to Venice, with Mr Francis Whithed and Mr Chute, for the festival of the Assumption". That Chute was still there early in June is certain for on 6th June Lady Pomfret wrote from Venice to her friend Lady Hartford: "The English here are Lord Lincoln and Mr Shute." John Chute returned to England in 1746.
Provenance
Commissioned by the sitter who was in Venice with Francis Whithed; Horace Walpole; Strawberry Hill sale, The Round Tower (21st day, Lot 1), 18 May 1842, (with five other sketches): bought by Reverend H. Cholmondeley; Purchased by William Wiggett Chute, March 1844; the entry in his account book reads sketch of Mr Chute from Strawberry Hill by Rosalba: £1.15; Bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956).
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed on the back with John Chute's name and date 1741
Makers and roles
Rosalba Carriera (Venice 1673 - Venice 1757), artist
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein & Co., London, 1982, no.19
References
Strawberry Hill 1842., p.207 [Lot 1] Burn 1842: J. H. Burn, Aedes Strawberrianae. Names of Purchasers and the Prices to the Sale Catalogue of the Collections of Art and Vertû, at Strawberry Hill formed by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford , London c.1842, p.50 [Lot 1] Watson 1969 F. J. B. Watson, 'The Venetian Portraits of the Young Pretender: Rosalba Carriera and Francesco Guardi', Burlington Magazine, CXI, June 1969 Sani 1988, Bernardina Sani, Rosalba Carriera, 1988, no.335, p.321 & fig.293 Moore 1985 Andrew W. Moore, Norfolk and the Grand Tour Eighteenth-century travellers abroad and their souvenirs, Norfolk Museums Service, 1985, no. 79, p. 134 Conroy, Rachel, Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust, 2025, pp. 54-57