Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and Zacharias

Holy Family with St Anne, the Baptist and ZachariasAlthough trained in Naples, by Francesco Solimena, Conca's career was based mostly in Rome, where he worked on a succession of important commissions for frescoes and altarpieces, while his smaller easel paintings were snapped up by collectors around Europe. This is a sketch for an altarpiece by Conca, signed and dated 1723, formerly in the Ortolani collection, Rome.

Catalogued as English until 1980 and then as Unknown

Cleaning also permitted a clearer appreciation of Rembrandt's confident sweeps of the brush and thickly applied 'impasto' paint (see

It is probably one of his last: in 1658

Preparatory drawings are in the Pierpont Morgan Library

The broad characterisation and handling of the figures seems to contrast with the delicacy of the landscape detail which has led to suggestions that Andries might be responsible for them

the Virgin and the Magdalen This seems to be the group which appears in a comparable composition by Vald

We are perhaps more aware of the dreamer than the dream

Torquato Tasso's epic poem ""La Gerusalemme Liberata""

16-18: having learnt from the wise men of the birth in Bethlehem of the King of the Jews

Fairfax Murray was working in the Rossetti workshop in 1869-70

now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts

Duparc suggests a date of c