ANDREA CASALI (CIVITAVECCHIA 1705-1784 ROME)
Portrait of the Hon. Augustus Townshend (1716-1745), full-length, in a red coat, beside a table
oil on canvas
88 x 58⁷⁄₈ in. (223.5 x 149.7 cm.)
inscribed 'Augs. Townsheand Obt. 1745 / 2nd son of Charles Lord Vis. / Townshend by his 2nd wife' (upper right)

Collection of the Church Commissioners, Lambeth Palace, by circa 1860.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1991, lot 42.
Private collection, England.

G. Sestieri, Repertorio della pittura Romana della fine del Seicento e del Settecento, Turin, 1994, I, p. 44; II, pl. 224.

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