Lot 27: *IMPERIALE DELLA GRAMMATICA (1599-1634)

oil on canvas Gianni Papi was the first to propose an attribution for the present painting to Imperiale Grammatica, the son of Antiveduto (see G. Papi, ``L'arte per i papi e per i principi nella campagna romana. Grande pittura del '600 e '700," review of the exhibition in Paragone 485, 1990, p. 77.) Imperiale was a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. A signed work, dated 1624, The Liberation of St. Peter, is in San Salvatore in Lauro, Rome.

W.E. Browne, New York, by 1910 Peachtree Christian Church, Atlanta, Georgia, by June, 1938 with E. Okarma, Atlanta, Georgia, from the 1950s and then at Brobury House, Herefordshire, by 1974 Sale: Sotheby's, London, July 8, 1978, lot 46, unsold (as by