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"Titian and his God-Daughter - a Sonnet from Peter Aretin" - painted by W. H. Kearney - from the Exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1856. Engraving of a painting '...by Mr W. H. Kearney, who has here brought all his wealth of colour to do full justice to the great Venetian painter'. Italian poet Pietro Aretino was a close friend of the Renaissance artist Titian's, who painted his portrait several times. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.