A selection of outstanding Old Master paintings is on view in Robilant+Voena’s flagship London gallery, including pieces by artists that are rarely seen outside of museums, especially in the United Kingdom. 

The exhibition opens with a 15th-century panel by the anonymous Italian artist Familiare del Boccati, with a luminous work by Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina also among the early highlights. This painting exemplifies the Leonardesque style which Yáñez developed after encountering the master while travelling in Italy in the early 16th century, and which he subsequently introduced to his native Spain. 

A number of paintings from the Baroque era continue the chronology, with history subjects and still lifes by artists including Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Michele Desubleo, Antonio Ponce and Michael Sweerts.

Representing the 18th century are works by two of Georgian Britain's foremost painters, Joshua Reynolds and George Romney. Reynolds' painting of the celebrated English actress Elizabeth Hartley (below) is a beautiful version of a picture today in the Tate Collection, made when Hartley was at the height of her fame. Romney's oil study of his favourite muse Emma Hamilton relates to one of the artist's most ambitious works, depicting a scene from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

One of the most significant works in the exhibition is a masterful portrait by Francisco Goya, depicting a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Spain, Maria Luisa. The representation of the Marquesa is an astonishingly rare example of a Goya portrait outside Spain and still in private hands.

Artists include: Lubin Baugin, Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Michele Desubleo, Familiare del Boccati, Francisco Goya, Giovanni Martinelli, Cristoforo Munari, Antonio Ponce, Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Michael Sweerts and Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina.