Italian 1708-1787 Pompeo Batoni Location Italian painter and draughtsman. In his day he was the most celebrated painter in Rome and one of the most famous in Europe. For nearly half a century he recorded the visits to Rome of international travellers on the GRAND TOUR in portraits that remain among the most memorable artistic accomplishments of the period. He was equally gifted as a history painter, and his religious and mythological paintings were sought after by the greatest princes of Europe.  Related Paintings of Pompeo Batoni :. | Cleopatra and Mark Antony dying | Diana and Cupid | Mr. Han Fei Ruimo Rice | Portrait of Charles Crowle | The Virgin and Child with real Fupiyeluo, Kasituola, Ford, Rudolf |
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Carl Haag
1820 - 1915 German painter, active in Britain. After studying in Nuremberg, he painted miniature portraits in Munich and Brussels. In 1847 he went to London to study English techniques of watercolour painting and evolved a method that he claimed achieved the 'brilliancy of oil painting, combined with the tender-sweetness of water-colours' . From 1850 he exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours and was elected a full member in 1853.
Hans Knieper
painted Portrait of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway in 1581
leigh hunt
British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) Synonyms: Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt