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Mantegna and Francia

Chapter 21: PAINTINGS BY FRANCIA IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN ENGLAND EXHIBITED AT VARIOUS TIMES.
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The author traces the lives, careers, and artistic development of two prominent Renaissance artists, presenting chronological chapters on early training, major commissions, technical methods, key frescoes and engravings, and later influence. Detailed visual analyses accompany descriptions of signature projects, studio practices, and relationships with contemporary patrons and peers, while lists of principal works, plates, a chronology, and bibliography provide reference. The volume combines on-site observations with secondary scholarship to map stylistic evolution and contrasts between the two masters, offering readers both narrative biography and focused art-historical commentary.

PAINTINGS BY FRANCIA IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN ENGLAND EXHIBITED AT VARIOUS TIMES.

At the British Institution (1816-1852).
Date. Subject. Owner.
1843. Madonna and Child, with St. Jerome and St. Francis Hon. T. Frankland Lewis.
1852. Baptism of our Saviour Right Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P.
1853. A Man’s Head John Freeborn, Esq.
1861. Virgin and Child with Angels W. F. Maitland, Esq.
1863. Portrait of a Young Man J. C. Robinson, Esq.
At the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857.
Cat. No. Subject. Owner.
81. The Baptism of Christ Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
108. The Madonna and Child, with St. Joseph Lord Ward.
124. Madonna and Child Daniel Lee, Esq.
127. Virgin and Child Lord Northwick.
132. The Baptism The Queen (Hampton Court).
146. St. Roch Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart.
At the Leeds Art Treasures Exhibition, 1868.
Cat. No. Subject. Owner.
60. Virgin and Child. Triptych J. W. Faulkner, Esq.
80. Head of a Saint Alexander Barker, Esq.
83. Virgin and Child, with Saints Sixtus and Laurence Wolsey Moreau, Esq.
86. Saint Alexander Barker, Esq.
248. Holy Family The Right Hon. the Speaker.
At the “Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters.”
Date. Subject. Owner.
1871. The Virgin and Child Earl of Dudley.
1873. The Virgin and Child J. F. Jesse, Esq.
1876. The Virgin and Child—rocky landscape in distance Thomas Sheffield, Esq.
1879. St. Francis William Graham, Esq.
1881. Portrait of the Painter Sir William N. Abdy, Bart.
Portrait of Giovanni Bentivoglio, of Bologna