Alessandro Casolani (Italian 1552-1606), The expulsion from Paradise

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Alessandro Casolani (Italian 1552-1606)The expulsion from ParadiseInk and washInscribed with collectors initials PH for P. Huart (Lugt 2084) (lower right)10.5 x 14cm (4 x 5½ in.)Provenance:Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1st December 1983, lot 186The Estate of the late David Fyfe-JamiesonBritish Museum label verso compares the present work with a sheet of studies for the same composition in the Uffizi (no. 4876F).David Fyfe-Jamieson (1954-2020) was educated at Radley College where he was a celebrated cricketer. With his great friend Henry Wyndham, later chair of Sotheby's in London, he enrolled at the Sorbonne to learn French. Neither finished the course, spending more time eating out and watching Marx Brothers films. After a short spell in Australia, David went to South Africa where he worked for Wildenstein, eventually returning to London where he joined the Old Master Paintings Department of Sotheby's. He subsequently worked for Artemis Fine Art, a leading Old Master Art Consultancy. He eventually set up on his own in Dover Street, London, but closed it in 2000. He went on to reinvent himself as a cabinet maker in Shropshire, where he lived until he died last year.