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1708 Lucca, Italy - 1787 Rome. Known for: Religious and nobility portrait.
Pompeo Batoni was born in 1708, the son of a goldsmith of Lucca and one of the most ostentatiously wealthy and successful painters of the 19th century Roman school. He carried out monumental church... Read full biography
Pompeo Batoni was born in 1708, the son of a goldsmith of Lucca and one of the most ostentatiously wealthy and successful painters of the 19th century Roman school. He carried out monumental church commissions and painted religious and mythological canvases, many for eminent foreign patrons. One of... Read full biography
Pompeo Batoni was born in 1708, the son of a goldsmith of Lucca and one of the most ostentatiously wealthy and successful painters of the 19th century Roman school. He carried out monumental church commissions and painted religious and mythological canvases, many for eminent foreign patrons. One of his teachers was the Master Sebastiano Conca. He won his greatest reknown for smoothly executed portraits of popes, monarchs and British gentry and nobility. He was perhaps the most successful... Read full biography
Pompeo Batoni was born in 1708, the son of a goldsmith of Lucca and one of the most ostentatiously wealthy and successful painters of the 19th century Roman school. He carried out monumental church commissions and painted religious and mythological canvases, many for eminent foreign patrons. One of his teachers was the Master Sebastiano Conca. He won his greatest reknown for smoothly executed portraits of popes, monarchs and British gentry and nobility. He was perhaps the most successful Italian portraitist and his Roman studio was besieged with clients. At best, Batoni could paint with ravishing grace. He celebrated the silky and luxurious feminity of the young women by whom, to the envy of other Roman painters, he was surrounded... Read full biography
Pompeo Batoni was born in 1708, the son of a goldsmith of Lucca and one of the most ostentatiously wealthy and successful painters of the 19th century Roman school. He carried out monumental church commissions and painted religious and mythological canvases, many for eminent foreign patrons. One of his teachers was the Master Sebastiano Conca. He won his greatest reknown for smoothly executed portraits of popes, monarchs and British gentry and nobility. He was perhaps the most successful Italian portraitist and his Roman studio was besieged with clients. At best, Batoni could paint with ravishing grace. He celebrated the silky and luxurious feminity of the young women by whom, to the envy of other Roman painters, he was surrounded throughout his life. Batoni was the acknowledged master of the Grand Tour genre, finding... Read full biography
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - Auction Lots
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePORTRAIT OF COUNT KIRILL GRIGORJEWITSCH RAZUMOVSKY (1728-1803)
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Auction: 07/09/2008Lot: 83Subscribe or get free alerts
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePORTRAIT OF BARON FRANCOIS DE CHAMBRIER (1739-1781), CHAMBERLAIN TO THE KING OF PRUSSIA
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Auction: 06/25/2008Lot: 16Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of a gentleman, said to be John Sadler, half-length, in a red coat, holding a cane and glove in his right hand, a tricorn hat under his left arm, a landscape beyond
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Auction: 04/19/2007Lot: 104Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePortrait of a gentleman, three-quarter-length, in a red coat and a blue waistcoat with gold embroidery, holding a book and a tricorn hat, with a bronze statuette of the Venus de' Medici on the table, the Colosseum in the distance
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Auction: 01/25/2012 - 1/26/2012Lot: 34Subscribe or get free alerts
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