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Artworks
MATTIA PRETI (1613-1699)
SAINTS VINCENT FERRER, PETER MARTYR AND RAYMOND OF PEÑAFORT , c.1670s-80sOil on canvas; inscribed ‘TIMETE DEVM’ (lower left, on a scroll held by Saint Vincent
Ferrer) and ‘CREDO DEO’ (centre, in an open book held by Saint Peter Martyr)
306 x 207 cmProvenance
Francesco Carlo Spinelli, Prince of Tarsia (1668-1732), described in his Palazzo in Piazza Pontecorvo, Naples, in 1732: ‘Un quadro di tre santi domenicani di palmi 8 e 12, mano del cavaliere Mattia Preti calabrese, cornice negra ed oro intagliata’;
Garden Duff-Dunbar of Hempriggs and Ackergill (1838-1889), by 1872;
and by descent at Ackergill Tower, Caithness;
until sold at Christie’s, London, 7 December 2023, lot 24;
where acquired.
