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Amigoni, Jacopo

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Amigoni, Jacopo (b ?Venice, c.1685; d Madrid, 22 Aug. 1752). Italian Rococo decorative painter and portraitist. His early life is obscure, but he was probably born and trained in Venice. From about 1715 he had an international career, working in Bavaria, England, France, and finally Spain. His English sojourn lasted from 1729 to 1739 (with a break for a visit to Paris in 1736); his finest surviving work from this period is a series of four paintings on the story of Jupiter and Io at Moor Park (now Moor Park Golf Club) in Hertfordshire. He was the last of the Venetian decorators to come to England in the wake of Pellegrini and the Ricci, for the demand for large-scale decorative painting was fairly short-lived. Amigoni, however, earned a good living with his portraits and is said to have persuaded Canaletto to try his fortune in England.

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Amigoni, Jacopo

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Amigoni, Jacopo (c.1685–1752). Italian Rococo decorative painter and portraitist. His early life is obscure, but he was probably born and trained in Venice. From about 1715 he had an international career, working in Bavaria, England, France, and finally Spain, where he died. His English sojourn lasted from 1729 to 1739 (with a break for a visit to Paris in 1736), his finest surviving work from this period being a series of four paintings on the story of Jupiter and Io at Moor Park (now Moor Park Golf Club) in Hertfordshire. He was the last of the Venetian decorators to come to England in the wake of Pellegrini and the Ricci, as the demand for large-scale decorative painting was fairly short-lived. Amigoni, however, earned a good living with his portraits and is said to have persuaded Canaletto to try his fortune in England.

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