Provenance:
London, collection G.A.F. Cavendish-Bentinck
Collection W.D. Clarke
London, Sotheby’s 1922
London, Agnews
Padua, private collection(?)
Milan, private collection
George Augustus Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck was the only son of Lord Frederick Bentinck (the fourth son of the 3rd Duke of Portland). He was M.P. for Taunton from 1859 to 1865 and for Whitehaven from 1865 to 1891. He held high office as secretary to the Board of Trade from 1874 to 1875 and judge advocate general from 1875 to 1880.
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Literature:
B.Berenson Italian pictures of the renaissance: Venetian school, vol. I, Londra 1957, pag. 46
Ferdinando Bologna, Un doppio ritratto di Tiziano, inedito, in: Arte Veneta, XI, pp. 65-70, fig. 68-70
F. Heinemann, Konstens Venedig National Museum, Stockholm, 20 ott.- 10 febr. 1963, Cat. edited by di B. Wenneberg.
Giordana Canova, Paris Bordon, Venice 1964, pp. 101-102, fig. 113
Luisa Vertova, Giulio Licinio, in: I pittori Bergamaschi, dal XIII al XIX secolo, il Cinquecento, vol. II, Bergamo 1976, pp. 517, 558-559, cat. n. 20, illustrated at pag. 574, fig. 3..
Ettore Merkel, in: Da Tiziano a El Greco, per la storia del manierismo a Venezia 1540 - 1590, Venezia 1981 p. 144
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