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SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS - LONDON ART WEEK 2015: Further Details Can Be Found At SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS - LONDON ART WEEK 2015: Further details can be found at www.londonartweek.co.uk Agnew’s will open their inaugural exhibition at their new gallery space in St. James’s on 3 July, the first day of London Art Week. Portraiture through the Ages comprises a selection of rarely-seen portraits, including a number of loans, and featuring two exciting equestrian pictures; a painting by John Singer Sargent of Don Balthasar Carlos on Horseback, after Velázquez (in the Prado Museum, Madrid); and a striking portrait by Henri-Felix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux depicting Olivier Bro de Comères, a colonel and officer of the Legion of Honour. The exhibition will also include a large work by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Sir Gerard Napier, as well as sensitive self-portraits of artists and a fascinating selection of 19th and early 20th century portraits of society high life and low life. Charles Beddington Ltd. will be celebrating the City of Venice in a show hosted at The Fine Art Society, titled Venice: Paintings and Drawings of Three Centuries. The show will display approximately 30 paintings and drawings, with La Serenissima herself displayed in the paintings and drawings by the foremost artists of the city, including Canaletto, Marieschi, and Guardi and Carlevarijs. One particular highlight is Michele Marieschi’s Santa Maria Della Salute, a magnificent view- painting which will be on public display for the first time. Katrin Bellinger will show an exhibition of around fourteen French drawings from the 17th to 19th century, including works by Gillot, Millet and Fragonard. The show will include Four Actresses in Theatrical Costume by Claude Gillot (1673-1722). Carefully drawn in pen and black ink, and enlivened with grey and red wash, this work depicts four actresses dressed in elaborate costumes which are reminiscent of the seventeenth-century with slashed sleeves, standing collars and cuffs. The artist held a life-long love of the theatre, and this is a fine example of his draughtsmanship. Colnaghi will host an exhibition revealing one of the most important rediscoveries in the field of classic British art for decades. The Sayer Family of Richmond, 1781, is an exceptional and fascinating conversation piece by Johan Zoffany R.A. (1733- 1810), the master of the genre, early member of the Royal Academy and a favoured painter of King George III. As well as confirming the attribution of the painting, recent research has also revealed much new information about the sitters and their mansion in Richmond depicted in the painting. A recent book by art historian Dr David Wilson FSA explains the intriguing circumstances in which the picture came to be painted, and unlocks details about Robert Sayer, a leading publisher and seller of prints, maps and maritime charts in Georgian Britain. Wilson also reveals a wealth of information about Sayer’s mansion, which was later a residence of King William IV and his partner, the actress Mrs Jordan, none of which was known when the mansion was demolished in 1970. Sam Fogg will show Reclaiming Antiquity; creation and revival between the Fall of Rome and the Renaissance. The exhibition will take as its focus high quality examples of Cosmati-work and Opus Sectile decorative stonework, which were made between the 11th and 13th centuries reusing ancient Roman, Egyptian, and Greek marbles, porphyries, and other luxuries stones. The resultant objects take the form of brightly coloured ‘mosaic’ panels, which would have been incorporated into religious structures, such as fonts, altars, and the floors of churches. One highlight was described by a Renaissance travel writer in the late 16th century while it was in situ at the church of San Gregorio Magno al Celio in Rome, and reused the marble from a late Roman sarcophagus complete with an epitaphic inscription on the reverse. A concise group of sculptures from the later Middle Ages will accompany the earlier Romanesque pieces and provide some further breadth to the display. This will include the Virgin Annunciate by Guillaume Regnault (attributed, c. 1450-1530). Richard Green Fine Paintings will present Paintings from Georgian Britain; A Golden Age, an exhibition of portraiture, landscapes and marine painting. Among the works on view will be Nathaniel Dance’s stylish neoclassical portrait of Mary Brummell, mother of sartorial trend-setter Beau Brummell. John Cleveley’s depiction of King George III reviewing the Fleet at Spithead, off Portsmouth Harbour (1773) pays as much attention to the fine clothes of the spectators as to the Royal Navy’s might. Other highlights include Peter Tillemans’s A View of Greenwich, with riders and other figures, (1718) which depicts a view remarkably unchanged today, and an atmospheric evocation by Dominic Serres of British warships moored at Gibralter. Martyn Gregory will show an exhibition of 18th and 19th century British watercolours and drawings, including works by Peter De Wint, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, John Varley, and James Ward. A highlight is The waterfall, Betws-y-Coed by David Cox, O.W.S. (1873-1859), a confident and experimental watercolour on a grand scale, executed towards the end of the artist’s life. Betws y Coed was one of the artist’s favourite places and provided subject matter for many of his watercolours. In this work, Cox has pieced together several sheets of the ‘Scotch’ wrapping paper (which he used frequently in his later years), expanding the view to over a metre wide. Johnny van Haeften Gallery will present On Copper, an exhibition of approximately a dozen paintings from the 17th and early 18th century, all painted on copper panels. Including a number of very small and exquisite examples, and works by artists as diverse as Ambrosius Bosschaert the elder, Jan Breughel the elder, Jan van Kessel and Paul Bril, a highlight is A Palace Garden with Elegant Figures by Franz Christoph Janneck (170-1761). Martin Hirschboeck will be exhibiting at London Art Week for the first time and will show a previously unseen drawing by Cesare Magni (active in Milan 1511 – 1534), pupil and successor of Leonardo da Vinci, which has recently been confirmed as the only known drawing to be firmly attributed to the artist. A wonderfully light and airy red chalk study, it is a preparatory drawing for the major work by the artist of Madonna and Child with Two Saints in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana. Other highlights include a previously unpublished study by Giovanni Battisti Gaulli (1639-1709) for the vault frescoes in Il Gesù, and a newly discovered oil sketch by Carl Blechen (1798-1840), one of the most important German landscape painters between the eras of Romanticism and Realism, featuring a mountainous river valley with a castle in a mysteriously eerie atmosphere. Galería José de la Mano will present Ignacio Pinazo (1849-1916). A Valencian Master of Light, an exhibition of 25 exceptional drawings by the celebrated Spanish artist. This will be shown alongside an important selection of Spanish works on paper of the 16th to 18th centuries. Daniel Katz Gallery is staging an exhibition titled From the Salon, which will feature a selection of outstanding works that have been exhibited at national Salon exhibitions, including the Salon in Paris, the Royal Academy in London and the Venice Biennale. Highlights include the rare and rediscovered Portrait of Armand Gérôme, brother of the artist (1848) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The National Gallery in London has a study of the head for the portrait, and although scholars knew of the finished painting, its whereabouts were unknown. Gerome painted relatively few portraits, and this touching depiction of a close family member painted by a precocious and confident 24 year old artist makes this arresting portrait an incredibly rare and important work of art. Other highlights include a magnificent original plaster model of Clytie by George Frederick Watts, a sculpture which launched the artist as the pioneer of the New Sculpture movement and once formed part of Watt's personal collection; and an alluring, gleaming gilt bronze figure of Corinth by Jean-Léon Gérôme, the last sculpture he ever made. Lampronti Gallery will host Lights and Shadows: Caravaggism in Europe which brings together a carefully selected group of Caravaggesque paintings, spanning the entire development of this vibrant artistic movement that dominated Europe throughout the seventeenth century. The exhibition aims to draw attention to Italian painters and European artists who travelled to Italy in order to explore this revolutionary artistic language. An exciting highlight is the recently rediscovered Saint John at the Fountain by Battistello Caracciolo (1578-1635) which will be on public view for the first time. Maison d’Art of Monaco will host Splendours of the Venetian Cinquecento which will document Venice’s Golden Age and the paths taken by Venetian painting from the Classicism of Bellini to the chiaroscuro nocturnes of Bassano, which stand as a prelude to the world of Caravaggio. Highlights include a variant of Giovanni Bellini's Madonna degli Alberetti, two masterpieces by Paris Bordone, the Allegory of Fire by Jacopo Bassano, and The Portrait of a Gentleman in Black by Domenico Theotokopoulos, more commonly known as El Greco, from the enduringly mysterious period of his move from Italy to Spain. Philip Mould & Co will be at their new gallery at 18-19 Pall Mall, where they will exhibit a selection of historical portraits as well as fine portrait miniatures in a new portrait miniatures cabinet room, and a group of works in a gallery devoted to Modern British art. The gallery also includes a state-of-the-art media center. 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