Francesco Zuccarelli

Francesco Zuccarelli RA ( born August 15, 1702 Pitigliano in Tuscany, † December 30, 1788 in Florence) was an Italian painter known for landscapes with antique background.

Life

Zuccarelli was a pupil of Giovanni Maria Morandi (1622-1717) and then at Pietro Nelli (1672-1740) in Rome. He should have worked in 1730 even with the landscape painter Paolo Anesi in Florence. From 1732 he settled in Venice. Maybe he was from 1742 to 1748 in London, as a scene painter for the opera. From 1743 he was in Venice, where he remained until 1752 with Bartolomeo Nazari 1747 worked for Tassi family. He has also repeatedly demonstrated in Bergamo ( 1736, 1747, 1748, 1751 ). He had some English patrons and visited several times England, where he in 1752 lived ( on the recommendation of the British consul in Venice, Joseph Smith) to 1771 or 1773 ( except for a period from 1762 to 1765 in Venice, where he became in 1763 a member of the Academy of Arts) and in 1768 one of the founding members of the Royal Academy was. After his time in England, he moved to Florence, and was also in Rome. Many of his pictures are in English collections (Windsor Castle, National Gallery ) and in Venice. Among his students Giuseppe Zais and Vittorio Amadeo Cignaroli.

In 1772, he became president of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

In landscape painting, he followed in particular Marco Ricci.

He signed his paintings with a small pumpkin ( according to the meaning of his Italian name ).