Joseph Wagner (engraver)
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Joseph Wagner was an eighteenth century Austrian engraver and printseller. Born in Thalendorf, he became a longtime pupil, friend, and partner with Italian painter Jacopo Amigoni. Wagner spent seven y
Portrait of Joseph Wagner by Rosalba Carriera
Etching and engraving by Joseph Wagner of Farinelli after Jacopo Amigoni, 1735.
Landscape by Joseph Wagner after Canaletto.
Giovanni Volpato
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Giovanni Volpato was an Italian engraver. He was also an excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines.
Joseph Wagner (engraver)
…Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna. The joint company between Wagner and Marchesini was dissolved in 1759. In the mid-1760s, Wagner began collaborating with Giovanni Volpato, one of the best engravers in the area. A letter by Volpato in 1763 said that Wagner used the highest quality ink available on the market, receiving…
Giovanni Volpato (Angelica Kauffman, 1794/5)
"View of the Gallery painted by Annibale Carracci and his Scholars existing in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome" (1777); Sign.: ''Fran.co Panini and Lodo.co Teseo dis. Gio. Volpato sc. in Rome 1777'' (British Library)
I Burattini, c. 1770
Detail of a pilaster of the Raphael's Loggia with marine fauna and mythological subjects. Engraving, 1774