Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Giovanni Paolo Panini
A capriccio of the Roman forum with Tuccia, the Vestal Virgin
Auction Closed
December 6, 06:47 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
Lot Details
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The Property of Sir Brooke Boothby, 15th Bt., removed from Fonmon Castle, Glamorgan
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Piacenza 1691–1765 Rome
A capriccio of the Roman forum with Tuccia, the Vestal Virgin
signed and dated lower centre on the stairs: I.P. PANINI/ ROMÆ MDCCXXXIoil on canvas
unframed: 99.4 x 136.6 cm.; 39⅛ x 53¾ in.
framed: 109.2 x 146.8 cm.; 43 x 57¾ in.
Acquired by Robert Jones II of Fonmon (1706–1742) in Rome in 1731;
Thence by descent to his son, Robert Jones III of Fonmon (1738–1793);
Thence by descent to his son, Robert Jones IV (1773–1834);
Thence by inheritance to his nephew, Robert Oliver Jones (1811–1885);
Thence by descent to his daughter, Edith Alicia Jones, who married Robert Arthur Valpy (1844–1894);
Thence by descent to their daughter, Clara Valpy (1877–1869), who married Sir Seymour Boothby (1866–1951);
Thence by descent in the Boothby family at Fonmon Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, to the present owner.
A Catalogue of the Pictures in Fonmon Castle 1743, MS D/DF F/190, Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, no. 25;
A.D. Fraser Jenkins, 'The Paintings at Fonmon Castle', in S. Williams, Stewart Williams’ Glamorgan Historian, vol. 7, Glamorgan 1971, p. 65–66, reproduced;
J. Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701–1800, New Haven and London 1997, p. 561.