Rosalba Carriera (1673–1757)

• Was an Italian Rococo painter.
• Carriera was born in Venice.
• Carriera began painting miniatures for the lids of snuff-boxes and as independent objects.
• Soon, she also began producing portraits in pastel.
• The portraits of her early period include those of Maximilian II of Bavaria; Frederick IV of Denmark; the "Artist and her Sister Naneta"; and Augustus the Strong, King of Poland.
• By 1700, Carriera was already painting miniatures and by 1703 she had completed her first pastel portraits.
• In 1704, she was made an Accademico di merito by the Roman Accademia di San Luca, a title reserved for non-Roman painters.
• Between 1720 and 1721, Carriera worked in Paris, where her work was in great demand.
• She painted Watteau, all the royalty and nobility from the King and Regent downwards, and was elected a member of the Académie royale by acclamation.
• Antonio Pellegrini married to her sister Angela.
• She returned to her home on the Grand Canal in Venice in 1721.
• Carriera, with her sister Giovanna in tow, visited Modena, Parma, and Vienna.
• Rosalba spendt her last years in a small house in the Dorsoduro district of Venice, where she died at the age of 84.

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