Vincenzo Damini (c. 1690-96 - after 1749)

• Was an Italian artist.
• He was a pupil of Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, whom he accompanied to England in about 1720.
• Five decorative paintings inset into the plaster ceiling of a room designed by James Gibbs for a house in Henrietta Street, London, are attributed to Damini.
• The entire room, dating from around 1727-32 is preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• He returned to Italy in 1730, accompanied by Giles Hussey.
• By 1737 he was in L'Aquila, in Abruzzo, where, in that year, he painted an altarpiece at the church of the monastery of San Giuliano.
• He died in L'Aquila in about 1749.
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