Pompeo Batoni
1708 – 1787
Italian painter, the last great Italian personality in the history of painting at Rome. He carried out prestigious church commissions and painted numerous fine mythological canvases, many for eminent foreign patrons, but he is famous above all as a portraitist. After Mengs left Rome for Madrid in 1761 his preeminence in this field was unchallenged, and he was particularly favoured by foreign visitors making the Grand Tour (an extensive journey to the Continent), whom he often portrayed in an antique setting.
26 artworks in collection
Locations
Works
Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist
Private collection1738
Susanna and the Elders
Private collection1751
Portrait of Princess Giacinta Orsini Buoncampagni Ludovisi
Private collection1758
Samson and Delilah
Private collection1766
Portrait of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig1767
Sir Gregory Page-Turner
Private collection1768
