17 mai 2012
"The English Prize: The Capture of the Westmorland, An Episode of the Grand Tour" at the Ashmolean
Unknown artist, Portrait of an Unknown Man, c. 1777. Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm© Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Museo. OXFORD.- The story of the Westmorland, an armed merchant ship sailing from Livorno to London in January 1779, is one...