Description
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Inscription
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "Rowlandson"; in graphite, lower centre (left to right): "Angelo" "Madame Cain"; in graphite, lower right: [Rowlandson?]; in graphite, on mount, lower right: "D26036".
Descriptive Medium
Watercolour with pen and red-brown and gray-brown ink
Image Licence
Public Domain, Yale Center for British Art
Image Credit
image credit Yale Center for British Art
Location
England
Country
England
Tags
Category
People & Society
TWW Comment
Domenico Angelo (1716-1802) was an Italian fencing master and an influential figure in the development of the sport. Born in Pisa, he moved first to Paris and then London where he set up a fencing school in Carlisle House in the 1750s. The school quickly became popular with the wealthy elite including members of the Royal Family, and Angelo also welcomed female students, some of them actresses from the local London theatres. One of his sons took over the school in 1760 and it continued to operate well into the 19th century.