Allen Smith Seated above the Arno comtemplating Florence

François-Xavier Fabre (1766 - 1837)

Fitzwilliam Museum

1797

A composition chosen by the sitter and derived from a portrait of Goethe by Tischbein. Smith, a tourist in Italy, sits in the foreground amidst classical ruins while the city and hills rise in the distance. Signed and dated.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 69 x 89 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £7000 ( Total: £41,940)
• ArtFunded in: 1985
• Vendor: Executors of Mrs K A J Clarke

Provenance

Henry Sinclair, Dalky Lodge, Dublin; sold Christie's; bt. Agnew's; Charles Clarke by descent to Louis Clarke; J.Stephenson Clarke; Mrs K.A.J. Clarke (on loan to the Fitzwilliam from 1980).

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