Elopment of Bianca Cappello

A finely detailed pen and ink.

Artist: Attributed John Robert Herbert 1810
Medium: Pen and Ink
Date: 1850 - 1860
Origin: British
Size: 9 x 7"
Provenance: Hill House
Notes & Literature: This picture is founded on an Italian tradition , on which Lady Lytton ( the wife of the great novelist) has written a novel. Bianca Capello was the wife of Cosmos I. , Duke of Milan , of the family of the Medici, and eloped with a gentleman of her husband's court, about the year 1560 ; they were followed and both were slain . Some historians say she was the mistress, not the wife of Cosmos I. However, in one thing all are agreed, that she was a woman of surpassing beauty John Robert



Condition: Very good

Subject References: Reference: Pictures and Painters of the English School 143F