Alessandro Longhi (1733–1813)

• Was a Venetian portrait painter and printmaker in etching.
• He is known best for his oil portraits of Venetian nobles of state.
• His father was the famed genre painter Pietro Longhi.
• He trained under his father and Giuseppe Nogari.
• Like Sebastiano Bombelli in the prior century, Alessandro Longhi is noted for his zealous full-length depictions of robes and emblems of office.
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