Giovanni Battista Cipriani
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani |
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Florence, Italy |
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English |
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1727 |
| Death: |
1785 |
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Biography
| Giovanni Cipriani,a historical and decorative painter and draftsman, and one of the great backroom figures of the neo classic style in England. Born in Florence died Hammersmith December 14th 1785. Foundation 1768. Exhibited fitfully at 1769-1779. Trained in Florence by Hugford in a late baroque style, he met Chambers and Wilton in Rome in the early 1750s and was brought back by them to England in 1756, where he later did a good deal of historical decorative painting for Chambers and some for Adam, and joined Wilton as instructor at the Duke of Richmond's short lived Academy 1758, which taught neo classic principles. His earliest surviving ceiling decoration, Apollo and Minerva presiding over Religion, Eloquence, Mathematics 1757 Buckland House, Oxon. is still late baroque, but his later work is much more neoclassical. His most important surviving figure paintings, mostly in monochrome, have been dispersed, from 19 Arlington Street Lord Zetland sale, and Lansdowne House. Most of the latter are at Philadelphia. Cipriani's importance lies rather in his teaching at the Schools and the mass of his decorative designs, many of which were engraved by his close friend Bartolozzi, and had a profound influence. He was the teacher of J.H. Mortimer and collaborated with Barret, Mortimer and others in several large decorative schemes. Sales of his paintings and drawings in 1786 and 1787 are Lugt. His younger son, Henry, 1781 a childish Portrait of a young nobleman, but soon abandoned art and was ultimately knighted 13 September 1831 as senior exon of the Yeoman of the Guard. |
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