English school; 19th century.

English school; XIX century.
"Anibale Carraci."
Oil on cardboard.
Measurements: 20 x 16 cm; 56 x 32 cm (frame).
Portrait of the painter Anibale Carraci. The recognition of the liberal arts supposed a whole development of the portrait painting, generating a great interest for the pictorial capture of emblematic figures belonging to the world of the literature and the art. For this reason, aristocrats of the time expanded the collections of portraits of illustrious men, with the presence of relevant characters for culture. The preeminence that the figure of the painter as a famous man reached, manifests the great proliferation of portraits of artists.