Pastel portrait: Mrs Lewis Bagot nee Mary Hay (d.1799), by Anna Tonelli (c.1763-1846), 1797. Framed and glazed in original giltwood frame.

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Museum number

2014.5

Object

Pastel portrait: Mrs Lewis Bagot nee Mary Hay (d.1799), by Anna Tonelli (c.1763-1846), 1797. Framed and glazed in original giltwood frame.

Gallery label

Anna Tonelli (c.1763–1846)
Rev Dr Lewis Bagot, Bishop of St Asaph (1740–1802)
and Mary Hay, Mrs Lewis Bagot (d.1799)

Pastel on paper, 1797
Inscribed on backing: Anna Tonelli fece in Londra 1797

Bequest of Joseph Ken Mundy, 2014
2014.4 and 2014.5

The Florentine Anna Nistri (wife of Luigi Tonelli, a violinist) first came into contact with British patrons in Florence on the Grand Tour. She was brought to London in 1794 by Lord Clive, who employed her as a drawing mistress for his children and later took her on a tour of India.

These sober but lively portraits are typical of Tonelli’s pastels, with their refined flesh tones and delicately detailed costume. Bishop Bagot, ‘a diffident and conscientious man’, served the bishoprics of Bristol and Norwich before settling in St Asaph in North Wales.

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