Titian

Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 249

Literature
Frederick Ilchman, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Farnham, England, 2009, fig. 95

Exhibitions

2004 The Age of Titian: Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collections, Nr. 35

Provenance

Probably William Beckford (1760-1844), Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, and Bath, England
by inheritance to his son-in-law, Alexander Hamilton, 10th duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), Hamilton Palace, Strathclyde (near Glasgow), Scotland
by inheritance to his son, William Alexander Anthony Archibald Douglas, 11th duke of Hamilton (1811-1863), Hamilton Palace
by inheritance to his son, William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton, 12th duke of Hamilton (1845-1895), Hamilton Palace
Hamilton Palace sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 17, 19, and 20 June 1882, nr. 410, as Portrait of an Admiral in Armour by Tintoretto
with P. and D. Colnaghi, London and New York
sold 1882 to Henry Bingham Mildmay (1828-1905), London, Shoreham Place, Kent, and Flete House, Devon
his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 24 June 1893, nr. 73, as Portrait of a Venetian Admiral by Tintoretto
purchased by Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London for Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of Rosebery (1847-1929), Dalmeny House, Midlothian, Scotland
probably Albert Edward Harry Mayer Archibald Primrose, 6th earl of Rosebery (1882-1974), Dalmeny House
sold 1954 through Wildenstein & Co., New York to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
gift 1957 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1957.14.3

Other works by Titian

The Flaying of Marsyas
c. 1575-76

Christ Carrying the Cross
1565-70

Diana and Callisto
1556-59

Venus with a Organist and a Dog
c. 1550

Pope Paul III Bareheaded
1543