A Group of Six Men (including possibly a Self-portrait)
attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529 – Bologna 1592)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
c. 1560 - 1569
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1105 x 1613 mm (43 1/2 x 63 1/2 in)
Collection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872158
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Group of Six Men (including possibly a Self-portrait), attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529 – Bologna 1592), c. 1560-9.
Provenance
Acquired in or soon after 1772, as a picture to match the purported Van Dyck of The Bolinbroke Family, as the overdoor to the Velvet Room at the opposite end of the Great Saloon (see Theresa Parker's letter of 2 April 1772, quoted by T. Lummis and J.Marsh, The Woman's Domain, 1990, p.71); and in that room (though not, to judge by the sequence of pictures in the catalogues from 1819 onwards, in that position) ever since (apart from a period - no doubt between 1861 and 1884. when the house was let to Mr Hartmann, when the picture was in London, according to a note in the copy of the 1844 Catalogue in the archive and thence by descent; accepted by the Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the Trust in 1957.
Makers and roles
attributed to Bartolomeo Passarotti (Bologna 1529 – Bologna 1592), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Dirck Barendsz (Amsterdam 1534 - Amsterdam 1592), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588), artist