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Painter, b. 1745 - d. 1816

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  • Emma Hamilton as a Bacchante, wearing classical dress, pouring wine from a Greek vessel
    Dec. 08, 2022

    Emma Hamilton as a Bacchante, wearing classical dress, pouring wine from a Greek vessel

    Est: £12,000 - £18,000

    Property from the Collection of Sir Michael Smurfit Robert Fagan London 1761 - 1816 Rome Emma Hamilton as a Bacchante, wearing classical dress, pouring wine from a Greek vessel oil on canvas unframed: 96.5 x 76 cm.; 38 x 29⅞ in.; framed: 118 x 98 cm.; 46½ x 38⅝ in. Bid on Sotheby's

    Sotheby's
  • ROBERT FAGAN (CORK CIRCA 1745-1816) - Portrait of the artist’s daughter, Estina Fagan held by her nurse,
    Jul. 04, 2018

    ROBERT FAGAN (CORK CIRCA 1745-1816) - Portrait of the artist’s daughter, Estina Fagan held by her nurse,

    Est: £10,000 - £15,000

    ROBERT FAGAN (CORK CIRCA 1745-1816) Portrait of the artist’s daughter, Estina Fagan held by her nurse, a mountainous landscape beyond oil on canvas 88.2 x 74.2cm (34 3/4 x 29 3/16in).

    Bonhams
  • ROBERT WRIGHT FAGAN MODERN WATERCOLOR
    Aug. 20, 2017

    ROBERT WRIGHT FAGAN MODERN WATERCOLOR

    Est: $50 - $75

    ROBERT WRIGHT FAGAN, MODERN WATERCOLOR, H 14 1/2", L 20 3/4":Signed lower right. Depicting boats at dock, rocks at edge. Framed and matted under glass.

    DuMouchelles
  • ROBERT WRIGHT FAGAN MODERN WATERCOLOR
    Jun. 11, 2017

    ROBERT WRIGHT FAGAN MODERN WATERCOLOR

    Est: $75 - $125

    ROBERT WRIGHT FAGAN, MODERN WATERCOLOR, H 14 1/2", L 20 3/4":Signed lower right. Depicting boats at dock, rocks at edge. Framed and matted under glass.

    DuMouchelles
  • Robert Fagan (London 1761-1816 Rome)
    Jul. 14, 2011

    Robert Fagan (London 1761-1816 Rome)

    Est: £40,000 - £60,000

    Robert Fagan (London 1761-1816 Rome) Portrait of the artist's wife Anna Maria Aloisna Rosa Ferri, daughter of Pietro Ferri, half-length, in a yellow dress with a red fur-lined cloak, with a white headdress and wearing a necklace with a pendant, leaning on a ledge oil on canvas 30 1/8 x 25 in. (76.5 x 63.5 cm.)

    Christie's
  • Attributed to Robert Fagan (British, 1745 -1816)
    Apr. 04, 2009

    Attributed to Robert Fagan (British, 1745 -1816)

    Est: $1,800 - $2,500

    Attributed to Robert Fagan (British, 1745 -1816) "Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Bow", oil on canvas, unsigned, 36" x 26". Presented in a Belle Epoque carved giltwood and plaster frame in the Louis XVI taste, the inner molding carved as a register of small stylized buds, the second molding bead carved, the primary molding carved with alternating, circumscribed leaves and darts, the outer edge of carved laurel leaves and berries.

    New Orleans Auction Galleries
  • ROBERT FAGAN (1761-1816)
    May. 11, 2006

    ROBERT FAGAN (1761-1816)

    Est: £100,000 - £150,000

    PORTRAIT OF APPOLLONIA LANGDALE, LADY CLIFFORD (1755-1815) measurements note 226 by 149.5 cm., 89 by 58¾in. Full length, seated, wearing a white dress and blue sash on a Klismos chair on a logia overlooking the Colosseum Signed l.r.: Robert FAGAN ROMA: 1791, and l.l. with identifying inscription Oil on canvas, in a contemporary Roman carved gilt frame PROVENANCE By descent from the sitter to her sister Mary, daughter of Marmaduke, 5th Lord Langdale of Holme, and wife of Charles, 17th Baron Stourton; Charles Stourton, her son, who assumed the name of Langdale and inherited Houghton Hall, Yorkshire; Thence by descent at Houghton Hall until acquired by the present owner EXHIBITED York City Art Gallery, Masterpieces from Yorkshire Houses, 1994 no. 43 LITERATURE Manuscript letter from Christopher Hewetson, 14th May 1791; Manuscript letter from Charles Grignion to George Cumberland, 14th May 1791 (British Library, Cumberland Papers); Manuscript letter from Charles Grignion, 16th November 1791 (British Library, Cumberland Papers); Arthur Oswald, 'Houghton Hall, Yorkshire II', Country Life, 30th December 1963, p. 1785, illus. fig. 4 (when on the staircase); A. Crookshank and the Knight of Glin, Irish Portraits 1660-1860, exhibition catalogue, 1969, pp. 64-5 (as untraced); R. Trevelyan, 'Robert Fagan an Irish Bohemian in Italy', Apollo, Vol. XCVI, October 1972, p. 299, (as untraced); John Ingamells, A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1880, 1997, p. 219; Nicola Figgis and Brendan Roones, Irish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, 2001, Vol. 1, p. 139, note 13 NOTE Painted in the tradition of earlier artists of the Grand Tour such as Batoni, this beautiful portrait shows the influence of several painters working in Rome in the 1790's, notably Angelica Kauffman who had settled there in 1782 and produced fashionable full length portraits of British visitors such as Lord Lambton. Fagan's portrait depicts the elegant Appollonia Clifford in fashionable costume and seated on a Klismos chair. Beyond her can be seen the Colosseum, one of the most admired buildings of ancient Rome. The sitter was the youngest of three daughters of Marmaduke, 5th Baron Langdale of Holme and his wife Constantina, daughter of Sir John Smythe Bt. of Eshe, County Durham . At the age of twenty-five she married Hugh Clifford in Bath in 1780, and three years later her husband succeeded his father to become 5th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh. Lord Clifford had travelled to Italy in 1787, and was recorded as in Venice in July of that year. In 1790 he returned with his wife. They were in Venice in September and by November had moved to Rome. In 1791 they left Rome to visit Ischia in April, Castel Gandolfo in June (where they were guests of Thomas Jenkins) and Naples for four months returning to Rome in November. Lady Clifford sat to Fagan in 1791, early on in her time in Italy, the choice being probably made through the link of the recusant families of Clifford and Langdale with local Catholics amongst whom the artist Robert Fagan was an active member. According to Charles Grignion, Appollonia Clifford was "disposed to do all in her power to advance his interest", and she recommended her friend Maria Villiers to sit to him (her sittings began in June 1791). The picture is the earliest surviving portait by Robert Fagan, the colourful son of a London baker from Cork who always remained proud of his Irish links. Fagan's first visit to Rome was in 1781 at the age of twenty. After training at the Royal Academy he returned in 1784, and remained in Italy for the rest of his life. His wide career encompassed that of a portrait painter in the neo-classical tradition, an archaeologist at Laurentum, Ostia and in Sicily, and a dealer in antiquities and paintings. Taking full advantage of the sales resulting from Napoleon's invasion of June 1796, he acted for such great collectors as Frederick Harvey, 4th Earl of Bristol. His greatest coup was the acquisition of the celebrated pair of landscapes by Claude owned by Prince Altieri which he brought out of Rome and sold to William Beckford. His fame led him to become confidant to Queen Maria Caroline of Naples and Consul General for Sicily and Malta. Fagan's portrait is recorded favourably in two letters written to George Cumberland by the Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson and the painter Charles Grignion. Hewetson writes on 14th May 1791 that the artist was "about a whole length of Lady Clifford & is likely to succeed in it". Grignion reported on 16th November that "Fagan had completed Lady Clifford's portrait some time since ... it has given much satisfaction". The portrait has a confidence and assurance which foreshadows such later masterpieces as Sir Corbet Corbet, his wife and dogs, as well as his attractive portraits of his two wives.

    Sotheby's
  • Robert Fagan (1745-1816)
    Mar. 09, 2005

    Robert Fagan (1745-1816)

    Est: £800 - £1,200

    Venus oil on canvas 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (23.4 x 18.4 cm.)

    Christie's
  • Robert Fagan (1761-1816)
    Nov. 23, 2004

    Robert Fagan (1761-1816)

    Est: £30,000 - £50,000

    Portrait of Lady Clifford, full-length, seated in a white dress with blue sash on a Klismos chair on a loggia overlooking the Colloseum signed and dated 'RobERT FAGAN ROMA: 1791' (lower right), and with identifying inscription (lower left) oil on unlined canvas 89 x 58 3/4 in. (226 x 149.5 cm.) in a contemporary Roman carved and gilt frame

    Christie's
  • Robert Fagan
    May. 18, 2001

    Robert Fagan

    Est: £30,000 - £50,000

    Robert Fagan 1761-1816 portrait of a lady three-quarter length, seated, wearing a white dress with red robes oil on canvas, in a carved wood frame 92 by 73 cm., 36 1/4 by 28 3/4 in. This beautiful portrait dates from the late 1790s during Fagan's thirty year stay in Italy. Born into a family originally from Cork, Fagan was brought up in London where his father was a baker. In 1781 he was admitted to the Royal Academy where he apparently studied with Bartolozzi, and late that year he briefly visited Rome with his fellow student, Grignion. He returned to Italy in 1784, settling in Rome on 6th March. He soon established himself as a fashionable painter of members of the aristocracy who visited Italy. His list of sitters included Lady Clifford, Lady Clarendon, Lady Mainwaring, Lady Malden and Elizabeth, Lady Webster, later Lady Holland, whose portrait apparently stood at the foot of the sickbed of the celebrated Lord Bristol, Bishop of Derry. Many of these portraits remain untraced. In 1790 he married his first wife, the young and beautiful Anne Maria Ferri (whose portrait by Fagan was sold in these rooms on 10th April 1991, lot 104). Two years later, in 1792, he first showed an interest in archaeology, working under the patronage of Prince Augustus Frederick. son of George III. Archaeology was to become his great passion and his work in this field remains highly regarded. At Ostia he made several important discoveries, including the first Mithraeum, and many of his discoveries are now at the Vatican. His other serious activity was as a dealer in pictures and antiquities, and he benefitted from the uncertainties caused by the French invasion of northern Italy. His greatest coup was certainly the purchase of the famous pair of pictures by Claude from Prince Altieri. Fagan transported the pictures from Italy at great risk and with the assistance of Lord Nelson, who helped by providing a convoy for the ship. The pictures were eventually sold in 1799 to William Beckford of Fonthill for £6825. When the French entered Rome, Fagan fled to Naples and then to Sicily where he was warmly received by the Hamiltons and Nelson. He showed courage in adversity by leading the people of Arezzo against the invaders as far as the gates of Rome. In his later years he became Consul General for Sicily though he never achieved his ambition to be appointed to the same post in Rome. His continuing exploits as archaeologist were greatly helped by his intimacy with Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, but he did not prosper financially and his activities as a dealer displeased the British Government. In August 1816, at the age of fifty-five, he took his own life in Rome.

    Sotheby's
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