Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708 - 1787)

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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

Pompeo Girolamo Battoni was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" led the artist to specialize in portraits.

Batoni won international fame largely thanks to his customers, mostly British of noble origin, whom he portrayed, often with famous Italian landscapes in the background. Such Grand Tour portraits by Batoni were in British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in Great Britain. One generation later, Sir Joshua Reynolds would take up this tradition and become the leading English portrait painter. Although Batoni was considered the best Italian painter of his time, contemporary chronicles mention his rivalry with Anton Raphael Mengs.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:25 january 1708, Lucca, Italy
Date and place of death:4 february 1787, Rome, Italy
Nationality:Italy
Period of activity: XVIII century
Specialization:Artist, Draftsman, Painter
Genre:Mythological painting, Portrait
Art style:Academism, Classicism

Creators Italy

Vincenzo Petrocelli (1823 - 1896)
Vincenzo Petrocelli
1823 - 1896
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782 - 1836)
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
1782 - 1836
Carlo Giuseppe Ratti (1737 - 1795)
Carlo Giuseppe Ratti
1737 - 1795
Ludovico Mazzanti (1686 - 1775)
Ludovico Mazzanti
1686 - 1775
Giovanni Stefano Danedi (1612 - 1689)
Giovanni Stefano Danedi
1612 - 1689
Ercole Lelli (1702 - 1766)
Ercole Lelli
1702 - 1766
Franco Grignani (1908 - 1999)
Franco Grignani
1908 - 1999
Eugene de Blaas (1843 - 1931)
Eugene de Blaas
1843 - 1931
Italo Valenti (1912 - 1994)
Italo Valenti
1912 - 1994
Francesco Albani (1578 - 1660)
Francesco Albani
1578 - 1660
Helen Zelezny-Scholz (1882 - 1974)
Helen Zelezny-Scholz
1882 - 1974
Hendrick Verschuring (1627 - 1690)
Hendrick Verschuring
1627 - 1690
Frederick Sommer (1905 - 1999)
Frederick Sommer
1905 - 1999
Giuseppe Bossi (1777 - 1815)
Giuseppe Bossi
1777 - 1815
Antonio Pachera (1749 - 1791)
Antonio Pachera
1749 - 1791
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1715 - 1799)
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi
1715 - 1799

Creators Academism

Fyodor Antonovich Bruni (1799 - 1875)
Fyodor Antonovich Bruni
1799 - 1875
Joseph Rabel (XVIII century - ?)
Joseph Rabel
XVIII century - ?
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810 - 1874)
Alfred Jacob Miller
1810 - 1874
Grigorii Grigorevich Gagarin (1810 - 1893)
Grigorii Grigorevich Gagarin
1810 - 1893
Albert Riegel (1802 - 1858)
Albert Riegel
1802 - 1858
Giovanni Reder (1693 - 1765)
Giovanni Reder
1693 - 1765
Arthur von Ramberg (1819 - 1875)
Arthur von Ramberg
1819 - 1875
Eugène-Antoine Aizelin (1821 - 1902)
Eugène-Antoine Aizelin
1821 - 1902
Mihály Kovács (1819 - 1892)
Mihály Kovács
1819 - 1892
Jean-Daniel Huber (1754 - 1845)
Jean-Daniel Huber
1754 - 1845
Aegidius Johann Peter Scheuren (1774 - 1844)
Aegidius Johann Peter Scheuren
1774 - 1844
 Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Voltaire
1694 - 1778
Christian Sell II (1854 - 1925)
Christian Sell II
1854 - 1925
Johann Daniel Herz I (1693 - 1754)
Johann Daniel Herz I
1693 - 1754
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770 - 1852)
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1770 - 1852
Pierre Joseph Michel (1737 - 1812)
Pierre Joseph Michel
1737 - 1812
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