The Rht. Honble. George Pitt, Lord Rivers

by Jacques-Laurent Agasse, J. Porter

$800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A remarkable portrait by James Agasse of his patron George Pitt, the second Baron Rivers, with his two prized greyhounds. James-Laurent Agasse was a noted animal and landscape painter who worked in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Agasse was born in Geneva and received his first artistic training there. In 1800 he settled in London at the invitation of his patron the Hon. George Pitt, the second Baron Rivers. While in London he painted a number of fine

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