John Charles Felix Rossi

John Charles Felix Rossi, by William Daniell; George Dance, circa 1802-1814, based on a work of 1798 -NPG 3089(2) - © National Portrait Gallery, London

© National Portrait Gallery, London

Mid-Georgian Portraits Catalogue

John Charles Felix Rossi

by William Daniell, after George Dance
circa 1802-1814, based on a work of 1798
10 1/8 in. x 7 7/8 in. (257 mm x 200 mm)
NPG 3089(2)

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed in pencil bottom centre: Bonomi, with the NPG stamp lower right.

This portraitback to top

Dance’s original drawing, dated 3 September 1798, is in the Royal Academy. NPG 3089(2) has previously been listed as ‘Bonomi’, [1] according to the pencil inscription. [2]

Footnotesback to top

1) For example, NPG, Complete Illus. Cat., 1981, p 685.
2) The correct identification made by Kate Jaram in 2002.

Referenceback to top

Roberts 1898
W. Roberts, Magazine of Art, XXII, 1898, pp 656-56.

Stroud 1971
D. Stroud, George Dance, 1971, pp 170-72.

Sutton 1954
T. Sutton, The Daniells: Artists and Travellers, 1954, pp 175-79.

Walker 1985
R. J. B. Walker, National Portrait Gallery, Regency Portraits, 2 vols., 1985, I, pp 632-33.

Provenanceback to top

Purchased from Appleby, 1940.

Reproductionsback to top

W. Daniell (A Collection of Portraits sketched from the Life since the Year 1973 by George Dance Esqr. R.A. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings by William Daniell, A.R.A., 2 vols, 1814).


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, National Portrait Gallery, 2004, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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