Gavin Hamilton, Thomas Pitt and statues for Stowe

• Autores: Brendan Cassidy
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 146, Nº 1221, 2004, págs. 806-814
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer discusses a collection of nine unpublished letters from Gavin Hamilton to Thomas Pitt, later Lord Camelford. Scottish painter Hamilton, who was based in Rome and was a founding father of Neoclassicism, was also a dealer in antique sculpture and pictures. Pitt was nephew of the prime minister William Pitt the Elder and served as a Member of Parliament for much of his adult life. The letters provide information on Hamilton's activities as a painter and as a dealer between 1779 and 1781, record his attempts to interest the 2nd and the 3rd Lord Temple in marbles for Stowe (which was partly designed by Pitt), document the statues and old-master paintings that he sold to Pitt, and provide information on the paintings on which he himself worked during these years. An appendix reprints the letters.