HAMILTONIANA ROMANA: Bruto II -- by Gavin Hamilton

Speranza

Irwin:

 

"The Brutus Hamilton later offered in a second version to Lord Shelburne in 1779.

 

Hamilton explained in a letter that the Hopetoun Bruto had "gained me some credit," but he thinks that the new work "is one of my best productions in painting.'"

 

"It was this Brutus -- the Lord Shelburne Bruto -- that Canova saw in Hamilton's studio in 1780, and wrote in his diary that it was "cosi ben inventato e di bel carattere secondo l'uso antico, il colorito poi non mi pare tanto eccellente.""