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'Varallo-Sesia: The Washing Place', by Samuel Butler

Oil on canvas. Framed. [No. 23 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: 'Butler made three oil sketches at Varallo all the same size, about 16 x 20. One is the washing place outside the town. The other two were both done in the Piazza on the Sacro Monte. One was given to the Municipio of Varallo-Sesia; the other to the avvocato Francesco Negri of Casale-Monferrato.'] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/varallo-sesia-the-washing-place-146365

'Two Heads after Bellini', by Samuel Butler

Oil on canvas (44.4 x 55.8 cm). Framed. [No. 12 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: I showed this to Gaetano Meo, and he remembered that the man was Calarossi, a model, whose brother went to Paris and became known as the proprietor of a studio there. The woman, he said, was Maria, another model. The background is Dieppe. I suppose that Butler did this study in the autumn of 1866, using nos. 10 and 11, the watercolours of Dieppe, or some other sketch made on the spot, for the background. The idea was to make portraits of two heads with a landscape background in the manner of Giovanni Bellini.'] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-heads-after-bellini-139344

'Handel when a boy', by Samuel Butler

Pencil on paper (11 x 13 cm; in a mount with the preceding item, 32 x 46 cm). Sketched on the end of a sheet from a sale catalogue. Inscribed by Butler: 'Handel when a boy - From and old picture sold at Puttick & Simpson's & sketched by me while on view.' [No. 40 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.]

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