Andrea Casali
Italian painter (1705–1784)
Andrea Casali (17 November 1705[ nb 1] – 7 September 1784)[ 1] was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was also an art dealer in England.
Angelica e Medoro , Bemberg Fondation Toulouse
Lucretia, Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
He was born in Civitavecchia in the Papal States and studied under Sebastiano Conca and Francesco Trevisani . Until 1738 he was a decorative painter of Roman churches and in 1729 was made a Knight of the Golden Spur ; for this in England he would be called "the Chevalier Casali". He travelled to England in 1741 and stayed there for twenty-five years.[ 1] He was a teacher to James Durno .[ 2] Among his English patrons were Thomas Coke , Earl of Leicester (1697–1759), and Alderman William Beckford . He left England in 1766, after which he lived for some years in Rome, where he died in 1784.[ 1]
Works
(partial list):
The Virgin and Child, after Raphael , etching, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
St. Edward the Martyr , Burton Constable Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire , United Kingdom
Lucretia lamenting her disgrace , 1761, Musée du Louvre , Paris
Innocence Triumphant , etching, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Adoration of the Magi , 1750, Foundling Hospital Museum, London
Allegory of Autumn , c. 1760, Leeds Museums and Galleries, United Kingdom
Allegory of Summer , 1760, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath , United Kingdom
Portrait of Sir Charles Frederick , 1738, Ashmolean Museum , University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Lucrezia , Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Madonna del Rosario , 1731, Palazzo Vescovile, Rieti
Annunciazione and Adorazione dei Magi , 1738, Accademia Albertina , Turin
Lot ubriacato dalle figlie , collection privée, New York
Martirio di Santa Cristina , 1732, collegiata de Bolsena , Viterbo
Angelica e Medoro , Bemberg Fondation Toulouse
Bacco e Arianna , 1755, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool , United Kingdom
Galatea , Art Gallery, Glasgow , United Kingdom
Adorazione dei Magi , Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , Germany
Ercole e Onfale , private collection, Rome
Lot e le figlie and Susanna e i vecchioni , collection Lemme, Rome
Il banchetto di Antonio e Cleopatra , private collection, London
Ester e Assuero , collection Cei, Florence
Allegoria delle Arti e delle Scienze , Dyrham Park , South Gloucestershire , United Kingdom
Visione di San Felice di Valois and Scena della vita di San Michele , collection of the marquis de Lozoya , Madrid
Continenza di Scipione , Rhode Island School of Design Museum, New York, United States
San Giovanni Battista in preghiera , Ringling Museum, Sarasota Florida, United States
Marco Antonio e Cleopatra , royal palace of the Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia , Spain
Portrait of Lady Anne Howard , 1759, Ingatestone , Essex , United Kingdom
William Beckford fanciullo , 1765, Hamilton collection, Scotland
Cristo morto compianto dagli angeli , 1737, Catedrale San Liberatore, Magliano Sabina , Rieti
La famiglia di Dario davanti Alessandro Magno , private collection, Amsterdam
Adorazione dell'agnello mistico da parte dei ventiquattro anziani dell'Apocalisse , 1735, Musée du Barocco, Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia
Notes
^ Some sources (e.g. Bryan and Hobbes) erroneously claim a birthdate of 1720.
References
Sources
Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 245–246.
Coen, Paolo, Il mercato dei dipinti a Roma nel diciottesimo secolo , 2 vols., Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 2010, (publishes the two auctions held by Casali in London and his inventory of goods]
Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur . London: T&W Boone. pp. 45–46.
Laing, Alastair (March 1994). "Masterpieces from Yorkshire Houses". York City Art Gallery. The Burlington Magazine , p. 196.
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