Witt Italian Pictures are Live!
February 18 2025
Picture: courtauld.ac.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Exciting news that the Italian pictures of the Witt Library are now live and free to browse online! There are exactly 349,029 cards in this national school, with some exciting discoveries to be made I am certain! Happy browsing.
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As a small aside, this resource is proving to be something of a treasure-trove for misattributed pictures, and the system generally makes sweeping through artists very efficient (more so than it was for opening endless stacks of boxes, it's true). Here's a harmless rediscovery I made just last week, a self-portrait by my favourite minor Georgian artist John Westbrooke Chandler (left) which had been parading as a work by John Opie in the 1950s (compared to another self-portrait by him which was sold by Christie's a few years ago(right)). I wonder where it is now.
Do get in touch if you make any of your own discoveries that you're willing to share.
