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Description: | This painting has been associated with the Spanish painter Jusepe de Ribera, known as Il Spagnoletto'. Ribera spent most of his working life in Italy where he became an important image-maker of the Counter-Reformation, specialising in single-figure portraits' of saints and other biblical figures. However, the present painting, probably a private devotional image of St Francis made in the seventeenth-century, imitates a type of image popularised, on a larger scale, by the likes of Ribera. The painting forms part of the Chauncey Hare Townshend bequest. Townshend (1798-1868) was a poet, sometime painter and collector, whose many friends in the literary world included Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. His collection of paintings and other objects, several hundred books and manuscripts, were jointly bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London and the Wisbech and Fenland Museum, one of the oldest purpose-built museums in Britain, which opened in 1847. | Subjects: | religion (St Francis); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Spanish School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Ribera, Jusepe de (Spanish painter and printmaker, baptized in 1591, died 1652, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8314... | Go to resource |
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