Homer crowned as Poet Laureate
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1767
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
600 x 1140 mm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 960060.4
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Homer crowned as Poet Laureate by Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 – Rome 1796), 1767. One of a set of ten wall paintings by Antonio Zucchi, representing classical learning and the Arts.
Provenance
Commissioned from Antonio Zucchi in 1766 by Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Bt. (1739-1785) and delivered in 1767; referred to as the ‘Library pictures' by Zucchi in a letter from Robert Adam to Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Bt. (1739-1785) of 15 September 1767, and in terms which describe the oval picture as “new painted” in a letter from James Adam to the 5th Bt., dated 6 October 1767; by descent; accepted in lieu of tax by H M Treasury and transferred to the National Trust in 1986.
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Antonio Zucchi, RA (Venice 1726 - Rome 1796), artist
References
Sands 2011: Frances Sands, 'The Art of Collaboration: Antonio Zucchi at Nostell Priory', The Georgian Group Journal, vol.XIX, 2011, pp.106-119