Bartolomeo Nazari
Bartolomeo Nazari (also Bartolommeo ) ( born May 10, 1699 Clusone at Bergamo; † August 24, 1758 in Milan ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque, mainly worked as a portrait painter in Venice.
Life
Nazari was 1716 students of Angelo Trevisani. He visited Rome from 1720 to 1723, where he was a pupil of Francesco Trevisani and Benedetto Luti. Sometimes it is also suspected that he was a pupil of Fra Galgario in Bergamo. From 1724 he was in Venice, where he was accepted into the painters' guild in 1726. 1744 he painted the Emperor Charles VII and his family in Frankfurt am Main. From 1756 he was a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He painted in Venice on behalf of patrons and collectors Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg and the British Consul Joseph Smith. He died during the return trip from Genoa, where he portrayed the Doge. He painted, among others, the singer Farinelli and Faustina Bordoni.
His son Nazario Nazari was also a painter.
Gallery
Samuel Egerton
Farinelli
Giacomo Carrara
Vincenzo Querini
Self Portrait, 1714, Molinari Pradelli collection