Keywords: Dunstanville.jpg artwork Q27766034 Creator Pompeo Batoni Portrait of male The future baron on the w Grand Tour with the Castel Sant'Angelo and St Peter's Basilica in the background The ancient Roman altar on which he leans is fictional with a relief based on the sculptural group Orestes and Electra 1778 ucfirst Oil on canvas cm 221 157 Institution Prado 22 P00049 credit line object history The painting was produced in Rome whilst its subject was there but in being shipped back from there to England on board the British frigate HMS Westmoreland it was seized by the French It was later sold by them to Charles III of Spain and is now in the Prado exhibition history From February to May 2008 it was on loan to the National Gallery London for their Batoni exhibition In 2012 the portrait was again on loan as part of an exhibition encompassing many of the art works which were on the Westmoreland This exhibiton was first displayed at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University and subsequently traveled to the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven Connecticut in the United States https //www museodelprado es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/galeria-on-line/obra/francis-basset-i-baron-de-dunstanville/ Prado Museum other versions Pompeo Batoni - A Knight in Rome - Charles Cecil Roberts - WGA01509 jpg PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT 1778; Basset Francis Male portraits by Pompeo Batoni 18th-century portrait paintings in the Prado Museum Italian portrait paintings in the Museo del Prado Batoni Francis Basset 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset 1770s oil on canvas paintings in Spain Portrait 1770s portrait paintings from Italy Male 1778 in Rome 1778 oil on canvas paintings Portrait 1778 portrait paintings Male 18th-century oil portraits of standing men at full length 18th-century promenade portraits Breeches in art British promenade portraits Canes in portrait paintings Grand Tour Males with red coats in art Portrait paintings of men holding tricorne hats Portrait paintings of standing men with arms resting on pedestals Red clothing in art male Rococo paintings in Spain Madrid Sculptures in portrait paintings Waistcoats in art |