Rosalba Carriera portrait breaks record as it fetches £508,000

CheffinsThe portrait of Coulson Fellowes by Rosalba CarrieraA portrait by Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera has bought at public sale for greater than 20 instances its estimate, fetching over £500,000.The sum is a world report for a piece by Carriera, who died in 1757, in response to Cheffins auctioneers in Cambridge.The portray, a portrait of Coulson Fellowes, who was MP for Huntingdonshire from 1741 to 1761, had a pre-sale estimate of £15,000 to £25,000 however went for £508,000.It was the primary time the work had come to market because it was painted 301 years in the past.The portrait was bought to a UK-based non-public collector by way of phone.It was painted in 1724 and recorded in Carriera’s diary when Fellowes visited her Venetian studio.Fellowes is proven within the portrait as a younger man earlier than he grew to become an MP. He was the son of barrister William Fellowes, of Eggesford, Devon.The portrait was a part of the Fellowes household assortment at Shotesham Park close to Norwich till the sale of the home and property following the loss of life of Maj Charles Fellowes in 1979, but it surely remained within the household.Getty ImagesRosalba Carriera did a number of self-portraits throughout her lifeCarriera, who was probably the most trendy artists of her day, created portraits of many notable figures, together with Louis XV of France, English creator Horace Walpole and French painter Antoine Watteau.Her works are within the Louvre in Paris, The Nationwide Gallery in London, The Frick Assortment in New York and different main galleries.The earlier sale report for a Carriera portray was £421,250, for a portrait of Irish soldier and politician Gustavus Hamilton bought in New York in 2002, Cheffins mentioned.The auctioneer’s Luke Bodalbhai mentioned the Fellowes portray exhibited Carriera’s “expertise as one of many main lights of 18th Century portraiture”.