Francesco Zuccarelli
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Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli was an Italian artist of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He is considered to be the most important landscape painter to have emerged from his adopted city of Venice dur
Portrait of Zuccarelli by Richard Wilson
The Rape of Europa. Mid–1740s. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.
Macbeth and the Witches. c. 1760.
The Academicians of the Royal Academy, by John Zoffany, 1771–72. Francesco Zuccarelli is standing and wearing red. He is given prominence as an artist favoured by the king.
Richard Wilson (painter)
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Richard Wilson was a Welsh painter who specialised in landscape art and worked in Britain and Italy. With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake and
Francesco Zuccarelli
…paint handling became more responsive to mood, utilizing bright colours that demonstrate a vibrant quality even though thinly laid on. The artist Richard Wilson painted a portrait of Zuccarelli in 1751 at Venice, and Zuccarelli was influential in redirecting Wilson away from portraits and towards landscape…
Portrait of Wilson by Anton Raphael Mengs (1752)
Miss Catherine Jones of Colomendy, near Mold, Wilson's cousin (c.1740)
The Inner Temple after the Fire of 4 January 1737 (1737)
Westminster Bridge under Construction (1744)