Caricatures, Campagna, and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Portrait Studies

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Thomas Patch
Portrait of Lord Seaforth
From Sketchbook of Portrait Studies
Red chalk
Published 1760s
B1977.14.309 (18)
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

This sketchbook contains a number of sensitive drawings in red and black chalk of Grand Tourists who passed through Florence. The sketchbook is open at a portrait of Kenneth Mackenzie, Lord Fortrose (later 7^th Earl of Seaforth). Fortrose, who visited Italy three times, was briefly in Florence in April 1771.