Italian, 18th century, male.
Active in Romec.1775.
Painter, engraver (burin), sculptor. Religious subjects. Statues.
Antonelli's work includes Halt During the Flight into Egypt (after Maratti), Christ on the Mount of Olives (Correggio), a Madonna and Child (Trevisani), and copies of various statues from the basilica of St Peter's....
German, 18th century, male.
Sculptor, draughtsman. Religious subjects.
Bergmüller worked in Augsburg in around 1730.
Berlin (Bodemus.): St Michael (sculpture)
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 1692, in Bologna; died 1776.
Painter, decorative designer, fresco artist, draughtsman, sculptor. Mythological subjects, religious subjects, figures, landscapes with figures. Stage sets, church decoration.
The year of Vittorio Bigari's death is questioned by some sources cited by Moser, which contend that he lived and worked in Russia until ...
French, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 11 February 1763, in Toulon; died 28 February 1831, in Toulon.
Sculptor, draughtsman, art restorer. Religious subjects, seascapes. Decorative schemes.
Brun first studied sculpture at the workshop of the Port of Toulon, before moving to Rome in 1782, where he spent six months perfecting his art with the Roman masters of the day. With no means to support himself, he eventually returned to France. Two years later, influential patrons secured him a grant from the King, enabling him to study in Italy for a further four years. Upon his return to Toulon in ...
Italian, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1729, in Naples; died 1814.
Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects, genre scenes.
Francesco Celebrano produced a remarkable altarpiece for the 17th- and 18th-century church of S Maria di Pietà dei Sangro (the former Sansevero chapel) - a Deposition painted to resemble a marble relief....
French, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 3 March 1763, in Paris; died 19 April 1810, in Paris.
Sculptor, draughtsman, illustrator, painter. Religious subjects. Statues, busts, low reliefs.
Antoine Denis Chaudet studied under Jean-Baptiste Stouf and Étienne Gois. He was awarded the second Prix de Rome in ...
Flemish School, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 1667, or 1668, in Antwerp; died 1735.
Painter, engraver, sculptor (ivory). Religious subjects, mythological subjects.
Jan Claudius de Cock studied with Peter Verbruggen in 1682. He decorated the château of William III at Breda under the direction of Jacob Romans. Admitted as master in ...
French, 18th century, male.
Born 1676, in Mans; died 1759.
Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects.
Joseph Coefteau is known for a Resurrection in the church at Vezot, and an Annunciation in the church at Gorron.
French, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 9 January 1658, in Lyons; died 1 May 1733, in Paris.
Sculptor, draughtsman. Religious subjects, figures. Groups.
Nicolas Coustou was the son of master carpenter and wood sculptor François Coustou, and Claudine Coysevox, sister of the sculptor Antoine Coysevox. As a young man he lived with his family, and his father taught him the basic principles of sculpture. He made a sign to decorate the doorway of the family studio: a scene in which St Stephen, kneeling, was shown praying for the people who were stoning him. Shortly afterwards his two sisters were summoned to Paris, to live with their uncle Antoine Coysevox, who had accommodation at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory, to improve their chances of finding suitable husbands. Nicolas had already been living in Paris since about ...
Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 1671, in Cremona; died 1749, in Bologna.
Painter, fresco artist, sculptor, draughtsman. Religious subjects, allegorical subjects, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes with figures.
Son of Giuseppe Creti the Elder, he was a pupil of Pasinelli in Bologna. His style shows the influence of Pasinelli, and also that of Cantarini. He was a founder member of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, in 1709, and worked for over 20 years at the palace of the Counts of Fava, on the Via Galliera. His reputation spread throughout Italy and beyond from 1730, and in 1737 he left to work at the Spanish court. Donato Creti is considered one of the finest Bolognese draughtsmen of the 18th century. He worked for churches in Bologna (S Domenico, S Pietro and S Paolo Maggiore), as well as in Rimini, Lucca and Palermo. His pendant portraits of Martha and Mary Magdalene are painted in a refined classical style, with graceful line and delicate floral colours. The majority of his pictures, however, were painted for palaces in Bologna, and are now lost. His paintings at the city's Palazzo Pubblico included four scenes from the life of Achilles. A contemporary of Giuseppe Maria Crespi, he adopted a quite different genre from the latter, painting idyllic, bucolic scenes, elegantly drawn and with vivid, jewel-like colours. His subjects - courtship and pastoral scenes - are reminiscent of, but inferior to, Watteau. His drawings of landscapes and genre scenes feature light effects rendered with great virtuosity....
Portuguese, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1763; died 1826.
Sculptor (wood), painter. Religious subjects.
João Domingues de Campos Dias was a pupil of the Neapolitan sculptor Padua and specialised in devotional images. He worked on some of the images in the convent of San Francisco da Cida. He also illuminated woodcarvings mentioned in the dictionary of Portuguese artists....
German, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 25 November 1768, in Hindelang (Allgäu); died 12 March 1859, in Munich.
Painter, draughtsman, sculptor. Religious subjects, mythological subjects. Funerary monuments, groups, statues, busts.
Konrad Eberhard was trained first of all by his father Johann Richard Eberhard, then in ...
Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 1673, in Milan; died 1744, in Ferrara.
Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects.
Andrea Ferreri studied in Bologna under Giuseppe Maza, but worked principally in Ferrara, where he settled in 1722. He is better known for his sculpture and stucco work than for his painting....
Italian, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 1652, in Florence; died 1725, in Florence.
Sculptor, draughtsman, architect. Religious subjects, mythological subjects. Groups, busts, statues, low reliefs, objets d'art.
Giovanni Battista Foggini studied initially in Florence and then moved to Rome to complete his studies at the request of Cosimo de' Medici III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Foggini subsequently returned to work in Florence where, among other things, he produced a bust of ...
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 30 August 1734, in San Matteo della Decima; died 30 June 1802, in Bologna.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, draughtsman. Religious subjects, allegorical subjects, mythological subjects, nudes, portraits.
Gaetano Gandolfi was taught initially by his older brother Ubaldo. He went on to study at the fine arts academy in Bologna under Stefano Torelli, Ercole Graziani the Younger and Ercole Lelli. He spent a study year in Venice before settling definitively in Bologna, where he was elected to membership of the Clementina Academy in 1760....
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 1728, in San Matteo della Decima; died 25 July 1781, in Ravenna.
Painter, sculptor, engraver, draughtsman. Religious subjects, mythological subjects, figures, portraits.
Ubaldo Gandolfi, the older brother of Gaetano Gandolfi, studied under Stefano Torelli, Ercole Graziani the Younger and Ercole Lelli at the fine arts academy in Bologna. He decorated ...
French, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1 January 1731, in Paris; died 3 February 1823, in Paris.
Sculptor, painter, engraver, draughtsman. Religious subjects, mythological subjects.
A student of Étienne Jeaurat and René-Michel Slodtz, Étienne Pierre Adrien Gois won the Prix de Rome in 1757 with ...
German, 18th century, male.
Died 11 July 1786, in Nuremberg.
Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects.
Christian Greiner was active in Nuremberg as a porcelain painter.
Zurich, 22 May 1981: St Lucius of Chur (polychrome wood, h. 42½ ins/108 cm) CHF 22,000
Italian, 18th century, male.
Born 24 October 1699, in Mons; died 1769, in Rome.
Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Giuseppe Grisoni was a pupil of Tommaso Redi in Florence. He went to London with J. Talman in 1715 where he painted portraits and produced drawings for publishers. The church of S Anna of Pisa owns an altarpiece entitled ...
Dutch, 17th – 18th century, male.
Born 7 October 1642 or or, in Dordrecht; died 11 June 1721 or or, in Dordrecht.
Painter, sculptor. Religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes with figures, landscapes, still-lifes (including fruit/shellfish).
Abraham van Kalraet was the son of the sculptor Pieter Jansz. and studied under the sculptors Aemilius and Samuel Huppe. He married on ...
