Salvator Rosa. (After). Considerable uncertainty exists with regard to the original of this picture before us; many connoisseurs, however, consider it to be a portrait of Salvator Rosa himself. The features certainly have a similarity, although perhaps not a striking one, to the portrait of the artist by Maratti, which is well known by the medium of engravings, and this opinion is, therefore, likely to be well-founded. Salvator Rosa was born in 1615, at Borgo di Renella, near Naples, and died in the year 1673, in Rome. [P. 15.]
Catalogue of Paintings in the Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. Compiled by Mrs. A.L. Doyle. Sacramento: H.S. Crocker & Co., Printers. 1876.
