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3 unusual facts about James Durno


James Durno

He studied first under Andrea Casali, and afterwards under West, and painted two pictures for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery.

John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor

John Thorpe, Henry Tresham, James Durno and Thomas Jenkins, commissioned paintings of archaeological sites in Naples and Sicily from Xavier della Gatta, Tito Lusieri, Henry Tresham and Louis Ducros, and bought sculptures from the young Canova.

Vision of Saint Jerome

In 1558 the Bufalini family decided to move it in their chapel in Sant'Agostino at Città di Castello, from where it was acquired in 1790 by the English painter James Durno.



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