Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 5th March 2025

Lot 270

Giovanni Battista Canevari (Italian 1789-1876)

Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £1260

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Description

Giovanni Battista Canevari (Italian 1789-1876)
Portrait of Geraldine Laura Hutchings (1811-1869), half-length, wearing a black dress and holding a posy of flowers
Signed and dated GB Canevari f./Roma 1848 (centre left) and inscribed Portrait/of/Geraldine Laura Hutchings/wife of/Hubert Hutchings/by Canevari/taken at Rome 1847 (to label)
Oil on canvas
76 x 63.4cm; 30 x 25in, framed as an oval

Provenance:
By family descent from the sitter, Sandford Orcas Manor, Dorset;
Dukes, Dorchester, Sandford Orcas Manor: Auction of the Contents, 6 March 2024, lot 387 (as Canaciari)