Count Uberto Pallastrelli di Celleri

Count Uberto was a mid 20th century high society portraitist who first came to fame through works exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the late 1930s and early 1940s with paintings of the Italian Royal family as well as the heiress Barbara Hutton and the Maharani Indira of Kapurthala. He arrived in Britain after the war where he was taken up by the Mountbattens, The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and the Duchess of Westminster. In due course he would also paint Gianni Agnelli and the Aga Khan amongst many others.