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Pompeo Batoni: Peter Beckford (1740-1811), godsejer, Dorset.  wikidata:Q20354384 reasonator:Q20354384
Artist
Pompeo Batoni  (1708–1787)  wikidata:Q505613 q:it:Pompeo Batoni
 
Pompeo Batoni
Alternative names
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo Battoni
Description Italian painter, aquarellist and drawer
Date of birth/death 25 January 1708 Edit this at Wikidata 4 February 1787 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lucca Edit this at Wikidata Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Work period between circa 1723 and circa 1787
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Lucca (between circa 1723 and circa 1727
date QS:P,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1723-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1727-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
), Rome (1727–1787)
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creator QS:P170,Q505613
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Title
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Peter Beckford (1740-1811), godsejer, Dorset. Edit this at Wikidata

Peter Beckford (1740-1811), godsejer, Dorset.
title QS:P1476,da:"Peter Beckford (1740-1811), godsejer, Dorset. Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lda,"Peter Beckford (1740-1811), godsejer, Dorset. Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Peter Beckford (1740-1811), godsejer, Dorset."
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Sir Peter Beckford, (1740-1811), was one of 18th-century English peerage; he is a huntsman, a writer and the patron of the well-known Classical composer, pianist Muzio Clementi. Sir Peter Beckford was a nephew of the Lord Mayor of the City of London William Beckford and the cousin of the English novelist William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) who is the author of the famous Gothic novel Vathek and builder of the remarkable folly Fonthill Abbey. He was also the British diplomat and politician George Pitt (1721 –1803)'s son-in-law for his marriage to Hon. Louisa Pitt (1754–1791) in 1773.
Depicted people Peter Beckford Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1766 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 262.5 cm (103.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 186.6 cm (73.4 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+262.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+186.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q671384
Accession number
KMS4945 (Statens Museum for Kunst) Edit this at Wikidata
References
Source/Photographer http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=166631

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