Marianne, Lady Acton and Family
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1972-10Citation:
Trevelyan, Raleigh. 'Robert Fagan, An Irish Bohemian in Italy', Apollo, Vol. LXCVI, Oct. 1972, p. 309Download Item:
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Robert Fagan (1761-1816) Brought up in London and admitted to the Royal Academy in 1781. Established himself as a portraitist of fashionable grand tourists and a dealer in art and antiquities in Italy. (published note regarding subject - Apollo): In 1809 he [Fagan] had painted one of his least satisfactory portraits: Lady Acton and her three children - this was Mary Anne, who at the age of fourteen had married her sixty-three-year-old uncle, Sir John Acton, Prime Minister of Naples.Role:
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