Description
Fine c.18th portrait of Nicholas Gualtieri, from the painting by Maria Maddalena Gozzi (1718-1782), Italian artist born in Florence to Tommaso Gozzi and married Giuseppe Baldacci. Gozzi was a pupil of Giovanna Fratellini and then of Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, to become a specialist in miniature portraits and pastel drawings.
Niccolo Gualtieri was a Florentine doctor and malacologist who established a fabulous private natural history collection, and catalogued its contents, he is best known for his series of shells; Index Testarum Conchyliorum.
From Niccolo Gualtieri’s, Index Testarum Conchyliorum.
Collections:
Museums Victoria Collections: ark:/13960/s2q8k75p5wj
Library of Congress Washington D.C.: LC control no. nr 00015211
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: ark:/12148/cb30548600n
