Giuseppe Angeli (1709-1798)

• Was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque.
• He trained in the studio of Giambattista Piazzetta.
• By 1741, he was enrolled in the guild of painters.
• In 1756, he began as an instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice; in 1772, he became president of the Academy. 

• He is known for two canvases in the church of San Stae and for fresco murals at the Villa Widmann-Foscari at Mira, near Padua.

• The Museum Cerralbo in Madrid owns a portrait of Federico Maria Giovannelli, Patriarch of Venice.

• The National Gallery of Art in Washington has an oil painting made for San Giorgio in Alga, Venice, of Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire among its Samuel H. Kress Collection pictures.

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