Lot 360: ANDREA SOLDI

FLORENCE C.1703 - 1771 LONDON PORTRAIT OF A MERCHANT OF THE LEVANT COMPANY signed and dated lower left: Anda Soldi / f: L: a 1735 Oil on copper; signed and dated lower left: Anda Soldi / f: L: a 1735 19 by 14.5 cm.; 7 1/2 by 5 3/4 in.

Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum, Italian Art 1600-1800, 1964, no. 59.

J. Ingamells, 'Andrea Soldi - A checklist of his work', Walpole Society, 1980, vol. XLVII, no. 69, p. 17; S. E. Moulden, 'Turning Turk', The negotiable self in Andrea Soldi's Levantine Portraits, c. 1730-36, unpublished MA Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2007, p. 64, reproduced fig. 14.