Studies of Lovers Embracing (recto) and A Suppliant Figure (verso) 1779 James Jefferys British Drawings by Jefferys were long attributed to contemporaries such as James Barry or John Hamilton Mortimer. Following the discovery of a signed work by Jefferys in an English library in the 1970s, which provided a clear example of the artists style, he is now recognized as the chief contributor to the "Master of the Giants Album," a dispersed group to which this sheet belongs. Jefferyss controlled, expressive style demonstrates admiration for Italian mannerists such as Baccio Bandinelli, whom he studied in Rome during the 1770s as part of a circle centered on Henry Fuseli. The figures express intense emotions, captured in the artists dynamic pen work, but the context that inspired their interactions remains mysterious.. Studies of Lovers Embracing (recto) and A Suppliant Figure (verso) 426638
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