The Genius of History (Fame writing History)
Sebastiano Conca (Gaeta 1680 – Naples 1764)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1764
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
248 x 197 mm ( 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732096
Summary
Oil painting on copper, nailed at corners to panel, The Genius of History (Fame writing History) by Sebastian Conca (Gaeta 1680 - Naples 1764). A female winged figure, wearing a laurel wreath crown, holds a quill in her right hand and a book in her left. She wears a white robe trimmed in blue and with a dark gold sash over her right shoulder. She looks upwards and to the right.
Provenance
Acquired by Henry Hoare II ‘The Magnificent’ (1705-1785), in the house by 1785 and thence by descent;given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Sebastiano Conca (Gaeta 1680 – Naples 1764), artist
References
Stourhead 1785 Schedule of Pictures left by Henry Hoare at his death, 1785 Colt Hoare 1818 Sir Richard Colt Hoare, A Description of the House and Gardens at Stourhead...with a Catalogue of the Pictures, Salisbury 1800, Bath 1818, rev. 1822, no. 24 Hoare 1822 Sir Richard Colt Hoare, History of Modern Wiltshire (Hundred of Mere),1822 , p.78 Stourhead 1838: Inventory of Heir-Looms at Stourhead directed to be taken by the Will of the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart. with the state and condition thereof, 1838 , no. 320 Stourhead 1898 Alda, Lady Hoare, Catalogue of Principal Paintings & Drawings at Stourhead July 6th 1898 (Ms.typescript), 1898 , p.19