Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 – 1779)

• Was a German painter.
• Mengs was active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid.
• Anton while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting.
• Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem in the Kingdom of Bohemia.
• He was the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish painter who eventually established himself at Dresden, where the court of Saxonian-Polish electors and kings was.
• His older sister, Therese Maron, was also a painter, as was his younger sister, Julia.
• Mengs wrote about art in Spanish, Italian, and German.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Maria Caroline of Habsburg -Lorraine, Queen of Naples, 1768.
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Anton Raphael Mengs. Portrait of Cardinal Zelada, 1773

Original, Art Institute of Chicago. Visited in 2018.

Anton Raphael Mengs. Portrait of Cardinal Zelada, 1773

Anton Raphael Mengs. Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs, 1747/1748

Original, Art Institute of Chicago. Visited in (2018)

Anton Raphael Mengs. Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs, 1747/1748

Anton Raphael Mengs, Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness, c. 1760

Original, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Visited in 2019.

Anton Raphael Mengs, Saint John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness, c. 1760

Anton Raphael Mengs, Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano, 1771 - 1772

Original, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Visited in 2018.

Anton Raphael Mengs, Portrait of Isabel Parreño y Arce, Marquesa de Llano, 1771 - 1772

Anton Raphael Mengs, Portrait of John Viscount Garlies, Later 7th Earl of Galloway, as Master of Garlies, 1758

Original, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Visited in 2018.

Anton Raphael Mengs, Portrait of John Viscount Garlies, Later 7th Earl of Galloway, as Master of Garlies, 1758

Anton Raphael Mengs, Elector Friedrich August III. of Saxony as an Infant (1750-1827), 1751

Original, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. Visited in 2018.

Anton Raphael Mengs, Portrait of Archduke Peter Leopold of Habsburg-Lorraine, as Grand Duke of Tuscany (1747–1792), later Emperor Leopold II, half-length

Original, Dorotheum-Vienna. Visited in 2019.

Anton Raphael Mengs, Portrait of Archduke Peter Leopold of Habsburg-Lorraine, as Grand Duke of Tuscany (1747–1792), later Emperor Leopold II, half-length