Bartolomeo Nazari-1740s Portrait of a Baroque Gentleman in a Red Coat-Oil Painting

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Bartolomeo Nazari-1740s Portrait of a Baroque Gentleman in a Red Coat-Oil painting

18th century Oil painting on panel circa 1740s … more Bartolomeo Nazari-1740s Portrait of a Baroque Gentleman in a Red Coat-Oil painting

18th century Oil painting on panel circa 1740s
oval panel size 9 1/2 x 8" -oval frame size:13x11"

Artist Biography
Bartolomeo Nazari (May 31, 1693 – August 24, 1758) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque mainly active in Venice as a portraitist.Born in Clusone
near Bergamo By 1716, he had become an apprentice under Angelo Trevisani but visited in 1723 the Roman studio of Angelo's brother, the Venetian Francesco Trevisani and then also studied with Benedetto Luti. Nazari likely knew personally Fra Galgario, the renowned portraitist from Bergamo, and is described by some as a pupil. He returns to Venice in 1724, and is registered with the Fraglia dei Pittori by 1726. In 1744, he traveled to Frankfurt to paint the Emperor Charles VII and his family and other members of the court. In 1756, he was inducted into the newly founded Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice. His son Nazario Nazari was also a painter, as was his daughter Maria Among his patrons were Consul Joseph Smith and the former general Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (who owned over eight diverse portrait paintings). He painted the portraits of a number of operatic singers including Farinelli He died in Milan, returning from Genoa, where he had painted the Doge.

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