Giuseppe Baldrighi (1722–1803)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Born in the town of Stradella, in Lombardy.
• Giuseppe Baldrighi initially trained with an unknown painter in Naples, where his family lived.
• By 1750, he was recruited into the Accademia Clementina of Bologna.
• He was the recruited to Parma, perhaps due to his skill at miniature paintings by Du Tillot, minister of Philip of Bourbon, and sent to study in Paris from 1752 to 1756.
• Here, he became known for his watercolors and portraits.
• In 1756 he became professor of the Academy of Fine Arts, and painter to the court of Parma.
• He died in Parma in 1803.
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