Agostino Brunias
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Genre Narratives, Landscapes, Portraiture Art Work
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Agostino Brunias |
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1735 |
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1779 |
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Genre Narratives, Landscapes, Portraiture |
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Painting
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Biography
| Italian decorative history painter; also painted West Indian genre; his name is often misspelled. Studied painting and called 'Romano' when he won a prize at the Academy of S. Luke, Rome, 1752. Robert Adam and Clerisseau converted him into an architectural draughtsman and took him to Spalato, 1756. Came to London with Robert Adam 1758 and remained in his employment for some years. He exhibited landscapes with ruins and figures in 1763-64. In the West Indies (Dominica) by 1770. He took to painting local West Indian genre and showed pictures of this character on his return to England in 1777-79. Several of these are at BAC Yale. |
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