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Artware Fineart has dated this piece to the 1750s.
Portrait of Michael Arne 1740-1786 holding a Traverso
oil on canvas
30 x 25in.
Provenance : Mr and Mrs Fielding Lewis Marshall sale,Bonhams, March 28th 1974, as Gainsborough
Michael Arne was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor.
Like his father, Arne worked primarily as a composer of stage music and vocal art song, contributing little to other genres of music. He wrote several songs for London's pleasure gardens, the most famous of which is Lass with the Delicate Air (1762). A moderately prolific composer, Arne wrote nine operas and collaborated on at least 15 others. His most successful opera, Cymon (1767), enjoyed several revivals during his lifetime and into the early nineteenth century.
Artware Fineart has dated this piece to the 1750s.
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Attributed to George Knapton 1698-1778 Portrait of Michael Arne 1740-1786 Holding a Traverso
