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Adam Buck: An Elegant Couple Admiring The 'Lely Venus'   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Adam Buck  (1759–1833)  wikidata:Q4678798
 
Adam Buck
Alternative names
Buck; A. Buck
Description Irish painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1759 Edit this at Wikidata August 1833 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Cork Pimlico
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4678798
Title
An Elegant Couple Admiring The 'Lely Venus'
Description
English: An Elegant Couple Admiring The 'Lely Venus'

The antique marble known as the 'Lely Venus' was acquired by King Charles I from the Gonzaga family in 1627-8. When the Royal Collection was sold during the Commonwealth period it was acquired by the painter Sir Peter Lely. In 1682, it returned to the Royal Collection but since 2005 it has been on long-term loan to the British Museum, London. Adam Buck was born in Ireland but worked principally in London as a painter in watercolor and a portrait miniaturist.

This watercolor was owned by Paula Fentress Peyraud, a reference librarian at the Chappaqua Public Library. She was a serious collector of books, manuscripts, letters, paintings, drawings and prints, with a particular interest in Georgian England.
Date 1801
date QS:P571,+1801-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Watercolor heightened with white over black chalk
Dimensions 412 by 320 mm; 16 by 12½ in.
Object history
  • Paula Fentress Peyraud (1947-2008),
  • her executor's sale, New York, Bloomsbury Auctions, 6 May 2009, lot 15
  • Auction: New York, Sotheby's, 2 February 2024, Old Master and British Works on Paper (sale #N11439), lot 749
Inscriptions signed and dated, lower left: Adam Buck / 1801
Source/Photographer Sotheby's

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Adam Buck, ''An Elegant Couple Admiring The Lely Venus'', 1801, watercolor heightened with white over black chalk

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Lely Venus

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