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Lot 32

Andrea Soldi
(Florence circa 1703-1771 London)
Portrait of a merchant of the Levant company

4 December 2019, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Andrea Soldi (Florence circa 1703-1771 London)

Portrait of a merchant of the Levant company
signed and dated 'Anda Soldi/ f:l:a 1735' (on rock, lower centre)
oil on copper
18.4 x 14.4cm (7 1/4 x 5 11/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Ralph Holland Collection, UK

Exhibited
Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum, Italian Art 1600-1800 1964, no. 59

Literature
J. Ingamells, 'Andrea Soldi- A checklist of his work', in Walpole Society, 1980, vol. XLVII, no. 69, p. 17
S.E. Moulden, 'Turning Turk', The negotiable self in Andrea Soldi's Levantine Portraits, c.1730-36, , unpublished MA thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2007, p. 64, ill., fig. 14

The present work belongs to a group of portaits by Andrea Soldi painted in Syria and the Levant between 1733 and 1735.

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