Portrait of Joseph Henry of Straffan  1755

[i]Workshop of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni[/i] [br]Batoni was the most sought after portrait painter in 18th-century Rome. Visitors, especially young British men on their Grand Tour of the Continent, wanted to have him paint their portraits. In this example, the young Irishman from County Kildare is leaning on the base of a pillar (suggestive of palatial surroundings), which in...