Memorial to Admiral Sir Clowdisley Shovell (1725)
Sebastiano Ricci; Marco Ricci
Oil on Canvas. Venetian, Baroque.
Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Shortly before 1722, Owen McSwiny, a bankrupt Irishman who had settled in Italy to escape his creditors, commissioned twenty-four large canvases from prominent Venetian and Bolognese painters as a com…