Pompeo BATONI (Lucca 1708-1787) Study for the portrait of Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton Sanguine and white chalk highlights on pink prepared paper. Numbered "322" at the top left of the sheet. (Stains). 26.5 x 19 cm Bibliography: Edgar Peters Bowron, Pompeo Batoni a complete catalog of his paintings, Volume I, Yale University press, 2016, no. 209, pp. 254-255, reproduced. This is a preparatory study for the portrait of Charles Compton painted in 1758 and now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.