Lot 248: GIOVANNI DOMENICO PORTA

GIOVANNI DOMENICO PORTA BONETTO DI SAN MAURIZIO D'OPAGLIO 1722 - 1780 ROME PORTRAIT OF A CARDINAL, POSSIBLY GIROLAMO DE BARDI (1685-1761), FULL LENGTH, STANDING BESIDE A TABLE, HOLDING A LETTER signed on the letter: GiaDom.ico Porta inscribed n the letter: Illus mo ...Rmo / Sig. Cardinal Bardini(?) / Arciv...Ben... oil on canvas 240 by 164.5 cm.; 94 1/2 by 64 3/4 in.

Giovanni Domenico Porta is documented in Rome from 1742, where he later became official portrait painter to the courts of popes Clement XIII, Clement XIV and Pius VI.