Portrait of John Woodyeare, 1750, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian (Rome), Italian (Rome), 1708¡V1787, 38 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. (97.79 x 71.76 cm) (canvas)46 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (117.48 x 92.08 x 10.8 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, Italy, 18th century, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was the preeminent portrait painter in Rome in the 1700s and was celebrated for his lively, flattering likenesses. His clients included emperors and popes, but his bread and butter were people like John Woodyeare: young British gentlemen, milordi, traveling through Rome on their grand tours.