Lot 32: MICHELI  PARRASIO

VENICE,  BEFORE  1516  -  1578
PORTRAIT  OF  A  DIVA,  SAID  TO  BE  ARTEMISIA  ROBERTI,  THREE  QUARTER  LENGTH,  WEARING  A  FUR-LINED  COAT,  PEARLS,  AND  HOLDING  A  MUSICAL  SCORE
oil  on  canvas
98  by  76.5  cm.;  38  1/2    by  30  1/4    in.

Gaetano Faccioli, Verona, as Pordenone;
His sale, London, Christie's, 28 June 1852, lot 93, as Pordenone, where described in the catalogue as "well painted";
Mary Anne Talbot (?);
Given to Mary Gladstone, daughter of the Rt Hon. W.E. Gladstone on 21 June 1881 (all the above based on information taken from old labels formerly attached to the reverse of the canvas which are offered with the painting);
Private Collection, Somerset.