Portrait of Countess Johanne Caroline Wilhelmine Bille-Brahe, née Falbe

The present portrait of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977 from the UK art market. As with a number of other paintings from ...

Pompeo Batoni was the son of a goldsmith with whom he first learned to draw. He subsequently trained as a painter with two local artists: Domenico Brugieri and Giovan Domenico Lomb...

Knee image standing, phase right. Black armor with gilded rivets, white scarf. In the right hand field marshal rod. Red Lifetime. Heat with a gilded mount. Painted inscription: “P...

The portrait shows Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach, the later queen of Great Britain and Ireland. She married Georg, son of the Elector of Hanover in 1705. In 1727 the couple asce...