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Description: | The Death of Cleopatra was a popular subject for artists during the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This small, anonymous work once belonged to Chauncey Hare Townshend (1798-1868), a poet, sometime painter and collector, whose many friends in the literary world included Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. His collection of several hundred paintings and other objects, and over four thousand books and manuscripts, were jointly bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London, and Wisbech and Fenland Museum, one of the oldest purpose-built museums in Britain, which opened in 1847. | Subjects: | figure; history; literature; mythology (Death of Cleopatra) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Italian School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8314... | Go to resource |
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