
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Painting Reproductions Gallery 3 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
Private Collection
Portrait of Edward Augustus, Duke Of York
$1155
Private Collection
Portrait of Sir Charles Watson
$957
Musei Capitolini Rome Italy
The Holy Family
$971
Private Collection
Saint John the Evangelist
$779
$60.72
Private Collection
Portrait Of The Principessa Giacinta Orsini ...
$2056
Private Collection
Portrait of William Legge, 2nd Earl of Darmouth
$958
Private Collection
The Penitent Magdalene
$873
Private Collection
Portrait Of Count Kirill Grigorjewitsch Razumovsky
$2545
Private Collection
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John ...
$880
Private Collection
Portrait Du Baron Francois De Chambrier, ...
$805
Private Collection
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John ...
$807
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minnesota USA
Pope Benedict XIV Presenting the Encyclical "Ex ...
$4370
$51.88
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minnesota USA
Portrait of John Woodyeare
$811
$53.72