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Pompeo Batoni


Born
in Lucca, Republic of Lucca, Italy
January 25, 1708

Died
February 04, 1787

Genre
Art


Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708 - 1787) was an Italian artist who painted allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" led him 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. Although Batoni was considered the best Italian painter of his time, contemporary chronicles mention his rivalry with Anton Raphael Mengs.

In addition to art-loving nobility, Batoni's subjects include ...more

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