Mid-18th-Century Cuzco School, Nuestra Señora De La Bella (Our Lady Of Beauty)

Mid-18th-Century Cuzco School, Nuestra Señora De La Bella (Our Lady Of Beauty)This charming mid 18th century Cuzco School oil painting depicts the Virgin Mary as Nuestra Seora de la Bella, Our Lady of Beauty. Its a devotional image, much revered across colonial Peru, and it represents a blending of Catholic iconography and local indigenous beliefs. Amid an ensemble of flora, she stands crowned before a celestial halo. In her left hand, the Christ Child, in her right, three roses, a symbol of purity, love, and divine grace. Her

the walls radiate with splendour

and he was often spotted musing by the waterway

a melting pot of artistic creativity

Artist’s auction maximum: £40

It was shown at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and represents the mature phase of an artist whose reputation was built upon sympathetic characterisation

Condition: Cleaned and restored

a number of pioneering

The trees are rendered akin to spirits from a lost realm - discernible only by a change in tone

He’d been instructed

several mature trees provide a dense backdrop to the composition

Here’s another example of Kluge’s work

As a measure of his success