Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708–1787)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Pompeo Batoni was born in Lucca.
• He moved to Rome in 1727.
• Batoni apprenticed with Agostino Masucci, Sebastiano Conca and Francesco Imperiali.
• The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" made the artist specialize in portraits.
• Batoni won international fame largely thanks to his customers, mostly British of noble origin.
• Batoni's paintings included the kings and queens of Poland, Portugal and Prussia, the Holy Roman Emperors Joseph II and Leopold II, as well the popes Benedict XIV, Clement XIII and Pius VI, Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria.
• He was married to Caterina Setti, and then to Lucia Fattori, and had twelve children.
• He died in Rome in 1787 at the age of 79.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Esther before Ahasuerus, 1738-40.
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Circle of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Family of Darius before Alexander the Great

Original, Dorotheum, Vienna. Visited in 2019.

Circle of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Family of Darius before Alexander the Great

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Esther before Ahasuerus, 1738-40

Original, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Visited in 2018.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Esther before Ahasuerus, 1738-40

Original, Dorotheum-Vienna. Visited in 2019.

Circle of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Holy Family.

Circle of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - The Holy Family.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Crucifixion, 1762

Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Visited in 2018.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Crucifixion, 1762

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Edward Dering, 1758-59

Original, Art Institute of Chicago. Visited in 2018,

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Joseph II and Leopold Grand Duke of Tuscany in Rome, c. 1780

Original, Hungarian National Gallery. Visited in 2019.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of Sir Humphrey Morice, 1762

Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - Hartford. Visited in 2019.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of Sir Humphrey Morice, 1762

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, John Corbet of Sundorne Castle, Shrewsbury, 1773

Original, Worcester Art Museum, MA. Visited in 2020.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, John Corbet of Sundorne Castle, Shrewsbury, 1773

Studio of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Fall of Simon Magus, c. 1745- 1750

Original, The Cleveland Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Studio of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Fall of Simon Magus, c. 1745- 1750

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1773

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-2020.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1773

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Samson and Delilah, 1766

Original, DIA, Detroit Institute of Arts. Visited in 2020.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Samson and Delilah, 1766

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of a Man in a Green Suit, 1760s

Original, Dallas Museum of Art. Visited in 2020.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of Charles John Crowle (1738-1811), about 1761-1762

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of Charles John Crowle (1738-1811), about 1761-1762

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Virgin of the Annunciation, about 1741-1742

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, The Virgin of the Annunciation, about 1741-1742

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Apollo, Music and Metrics, 1725-1750

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Apollo, Music and Metrics, 1725-1750

Workshop of Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of Prince Abbondio Rezzonico as Senator of Rome, ca. 1765

Original, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Visited in 2021.