Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Lord Chancellor
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
Spiridione Gambardella was born in Corfu, Greece. He was sympathetic for the movement to unify Italy and escaped as a political refugee to the United States in the 1830s. In 1841, he settled in London. Gambardella exhibited mainly domestic scenes in London between 1842 and 1852, showing four works at the Royal Academy and eight at the British Institution. He was patronised by the Second Duke of Wellington. He spent a period in Liverpool, painting portraits of merchants, before returning to Italy, where he died.
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- Title
- Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868) Lord Chancellor
- Date
- 1845-1850
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- height: 127.50 cm, width: 102.00 cm
- Acquisition
- Presented by Sigurdur Benediktsson, August 1953
- Provenance
- Collection of the Second Duke of Wellington (No.216; 1901 Wellington catalogue); purchased by Sigurdur Benediktsson of Reykjavik (had previously worked for the had previously worked for the Legation); by whom given to British Legation, Reykjavik
- GAC number
- 2267