Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pompeo Batoni - William Fermor - Google Art Project.jpg

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Original – William Fermor - This portrait of William Fermor demonstrates Batoni's ability to create a striking and memorable likeness - William Fermor was the eldest son of Henry Fermor (d.I746) of Tusmore, Oxfordshire.

Reason: Pompeo Batoni (1708 - 1787) was one the best portrait painters of his time in Italy - who introduced the portrait painting tradition to England. He was a highly-fashionable and celebrated painter of his time and among the luckiest and wealthiest painters in art history. The first major native portrait painters of the British school were English painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, who also specialized in clothing their subjects in an eye-catching manner, both inspired by Batoni's manner... ^{people, art history, this is an important painter ...}
As a painter living in Rome, Pompeo Batoni made a career of painting English noblemen on Grand Tour, and his paintings are among the best of portrait paintings of his time. The Grand Tour was a traditional educational trip of Europe and part of the Grand Tour was to bring home a Batoni portrait. His excellent production of paintings is indeed huge - and many young middle class and noblemen of his time owned a Batoni, but than - he was a very good painter too.
The red velvet coat lined with lynx is almost touchable. We have two paintings in art history of William Fermor. He was painted in Rome both by Anton Mengs and his rival Pompeo Batoni, and Batoni's painting is ten times better than Mengs's...
Articles in which this image appears: Pompeo Batoni
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Pompeo Batoni

Comment - Only used in a gallery. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But Crisco 1492 - it is second picture from infobox in the article body...it is not in the gallery. Hafspajen (talk) 05:00, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I must be going mad. Support — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:11, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support – nice painting. SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:38, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - poor Pompeo he has never been so unsuccessful like he is now. Hafspajen (talk) 06:01, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:37, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support EV could be higher, but it's not a bad picture. Maybe someone here could comment on Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nuremberg, Pennsylvania? --Jakob (talk) 22:42, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:55, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not enough support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:55, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]