Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings
Biagio Rebecca
A group portrait of Thomas Banks with his wife and son, all full-length
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April 5, 12:35 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Biagio Rebecca
Osimo 1734/5–1808 London
A group portrait of Thomas Banks with his wife and son, all full-length
oil on canvas
unframed: 75.8 x 63 cm.; 29⅞ x 24¾ in.
framed: 90 x 77 cm.; 35½ x 30¼ in.
By descent from the sitters;
Henrietta, widow of Walter Ralph Bankes (d. 1904), Kingston Lacy and Corfe Castle;
Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermere (1898–1978);
Thence by descent.
V. Manners and G.C. Williamson, John Zoffany, his life and works 1735–1810, London 1920, p. 177 (as Zoffany, painted at Kingston Lacy).
Biagio Rebecca came from an Italian family. He studied at the Royal Academy in 1760 and began exhibiting in 1770. He was admitted to associate membership of the Academy in 1771 but exhibited for the last time in 1772, after which he spent his time on interior decoration, working for wealthy clients and painting stairwells and ceilings. One of his best-known murals is the cupola at Heaton Hall, near Manchester.