Lot 162: Attributed to Federico Zuccari , Sant'Angelo in Vado 1543-1609 Portrait of a young gentleman, head and shoulders, at the age of 23 oil on canvas, in a 17th Century parcel gilt frame

inscribed and dated centre right: AETA 23./ .1577 ( AE in ligature) oil on canvas, in a 17th Century parcel gilt frame

measurements note 62.2 by 47.8 cm.; 24 1/2 by 18 3/4 in.

Catalogue of the Valuations of Pictures the Property of the Earl of Bristol at the Warehouse of Messrs France & Banting, James Street Haymarket, taken April 19th 1819, unpublished list, no. 45, valued at £10;
The Antique Collector, 1961, p. 220.
F. Petrucci, Pittura di Ritratto a Roma. Il Seicento, Rome 2007, vol. I, p. 125.

Frederick, 1st Marquess of Bristol, by 1819, Ickworth, Bury St. Edmonds;
Thence by descent until sold
Ickworth House sale, Suffolk, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, lot 483, as 'Cremonese School';
Acquired by the present owner in April 1999.

PROPERTY FROM THE LONDON RESIDENCE OF LUIGI KOELLIKER
The attribution is due to Petrucci (see Literature) who compares this portrait with another Portrait of a man formerly with Galleria Lampronti in Rome. The Lampronti painting is dated 1607, from very late in the artists's career. Although there are numerous extant portrait drawings by Zuccaro no signed or documented easel paintings in this vein have survived.

In the catalogue of the 1996 Ickworth sale Professor W.R. Rearick tentatively suggested an attribution to the young Gervasio Gatti, who was born circa 1550 and died in 1630.