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Giovanni Domenico Porta
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description
- Giovanni Domenico Porta
- Portrait of Marco Boncompagni Ottoboni, Duke of Fiano (1741-1818), three-quarter length, standing in an interior before a red chair, wearing an elaborately-embroidered blue jacket
- oil on canvas
Catalogue Note
Marco Boncompagni Ottoboni enjoyed an illustrious career. King Ferdinand IV of Naples appointed him Knight of the Order of Constantine; in 1789 Pope Pius VI appointed him vice-keeper of Castel Sant'Angelo as well as his lord-in-waiting. After his accession to the dukedom of Fiano in 1803 he was appointed a senator in Rome in 1805, after the Holy City's accession to Napoleon's French Empire.
The Ottoboni coat-of-arms can be seen lower left and are carved into the chair upper right along with those of the Boncopagni-Ludovisi, princes of Piombino.
We are grateful to Dott. Francesco Petrucci for proposing the attribution to Porta and for suggesting a date of execution circa 1770.