
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 3
1708-1787Italian Rococo Painter
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was born in Lucca, the son of a goldsmith.
He established himself in Rome in 1727 or 1728 to study the ancien sculpture. A pupil of Sebastiano Conca, he was however described as mainly a self-taught. His first works being mainly copies of works by Raphael and Annibale Carracci. In the early 1740s, however, he started to receive more prestige commissions, including the famous Fall of Simon Magus for the St. Peter's Basilica (now in Santa Maria degli Angeli). The Ecstasis of St. Catherine of Siena, now in the National Museum of Lucca, is from 1743.
Batoni became the most fashionable painter in the city, particularly after his most serious rival - Anton Raphael Mengs - departed for Spain in 1761. Batoni befriended Winckelmann and, like him, preferred Raphael and Poussin to the Venetian artists then in vogue.
His studio was frequented by foreigners, especially Britons, who would commission standing portraits in the milieu of antiquities, ruins, and objets d'art. Such "Grand Tourist" portraits by Batoni came to proliferate in the British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in the United Kingdom, where Sir Joshua Reynolds would become its leading practitioner.
In 1769 the double portrait of Joseph II and Leopold II won an Austrian nobility for Batoni. He also portrayed Pope Pius VI. According to a legend, he bequeathed his palette and brushes to Jacques-Louis David.
He died in Rome in 1787.
61 Paintings of Pompeo Batoni
Liechtenstein Museum Vienna Austria
Hercules at the Crossroads
$1367
Liechtenstein Museum Vienna Austria
Venus Presenting Aeneas with Armour Forged by Vulcan
$1339
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna Austria
The Return of the Prodigal Son
$921
Private Collection
St Paul
$995
$60.72
Galleria Sabauda Turin Italy
Pope Pius VI
$954
Galleria Sabauda Turin Italy
The Virgin Annunciate
$442
Private Collection
Purity of Heart
$873
Private Collection
Portrait of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester
$847
Museum of Fine Arts Houston USA
William Fermor
$839
$53.59
Private Collection
St Peter
$803
$60.72
Private Collection
10th Earl of Pembroke
$891
City Art Gallery Leeds United Kingdom
Portrait of Sir Thomas Gascoigne, 8th Baronet
$1086
Private Collection
Meekness (Love)
$868
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge United Kingdom
Charles Compton, 7th Earl of Northampton
$1286
Private Collection
Susanna and the Elders
$1266
Ashmolean Museum Oxford United Kingdom
Portrait of David Garrick
$767
Private Collection
Portrait of John Monck
$927
Paul Mellon Collection Upperville USA
Portrait of a Woman (identified as Margaret ...
$642
Private Collection
Sir William FitzHerbert, Gentleman-Usher to King ...
$768
Museum of Palace of Versailles Paris France
Pierre de Suffren-Saint-Tropez, Vice Admiral of France
$910
Public Collection
God the Father
$823
Private Collection
Portrait of George James, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley
$873
Art Institute of Chicago Illinois USA
Peace and War
$1063
$52.80