Portrait of Antonio Canova

1806 · Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

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Like his father, Lampi the Younger was a successful portraitist. The portrait of Canova is a replica by the son of the original version by his father. The monumental sculpture of the mourning genius, depicted in the portrait, is a detail from the tomb of Maria Christina of Austria.

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About the Artist

Johann Baptist II Lampi

1775 – 1837

Austrian portrait painter. He was born at Trento and studied under his father, Johann Baptist Lampi I, and later at the Academy at Vienna. He went with his father for thirteen years to St. Petersburg, and became a member of the Academy at that city as well as of that at Vienna in 1813. He painted many of the most distinguished personages of his time. He died at Vienna.

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