Andrea Casali
Andrea Casali (17 November 1705 – 7 September 1784) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was also an art dealer in England. • Illustration — Angelica e Medoro, Bemberg Fondation Toulouse • Illustration — Lucretia, Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) He was born in Civitavecchia in the Papal States and studied under Sebastiano Conca and Francesco Trevisani. Until 1738 he was a decorative painter of Roman churches and in 1729 was made a Knight of the Golden Spur; for this in England he would be called "the Chevalier Casali".
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Andrea Casali

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- Born
- 1705 · Civitavecchia.
- Died
- 1784 · Rome.
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Known for
- Lucretia Lamenting Her Disgrace
- Honours
- Order of the Golden Spur
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Andrea Casali (17 November 1705 – 7 September 1784) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was also an art dealer in England. • Illustration — Angelica e Medoro, Bemberg Fondation Toulouse • Illustration — Lucretia, Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) He was born in Civitavecchia in the Papal States and studied under Sebastiano Conca and Francesco Trevisani. Until 1738 he was a decorative painter of Roman churches and in 1729 was made a Knight of the Golden Spur; for this in England he would be called "the Chevalier Casali".
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He travelled to England in 1741 and stayed there for twenty-five years. He was a teacher to James Durno. Among his English patrons were Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester (1697–1759), and Alderman William Beckford. He left England in 1766, after which he lived for some years in Rome, where he died in 1784.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Works named in the authority record are Lucretia Lamenting Her Disgrace. Work by Andrea Casali is recorded in the collections of Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Holburne Museum and Leeds Art Gallery. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Golden Spur.
(partial list): • Illustration — Portrait of Charles Frederick, 1738 • The Virgin and Child, after Raphael, etching, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco • St. Edward the Martyr, Burton Constable Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom • Lucretia lamenting her disgrace, 1761, Musée du Louvre, Paris • Innocence Triumphant, etching, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco • Adoration of the Magi, 1750, Foundling Hospital Museum, London • Allegory of Autumn, c. 1760, Leeds Museums and Galleries, United Kingdom • Allegory of Summer, 1760, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, United Kingdom • Portrait of Charles Frederick, 1738, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom • Lucrezia, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest • Madonna del Rosario, 1731, Palazzo Vescovile, Rieti • Annunciazione and Adorazione dei Magi, 1738, Accademia Albertina, Turin • Lot ubriacato dalle figlie, collection privée, New York • Martirio di Santa Cristina, 1732, collegiata de Bolsena, Viterbo • Angelica e Medoro, Bemberg Fondation Toulouse • Bacco e Arianna, 1755, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, United Kingdom • Galatea, Art Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom • Adorazione dei Magi, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany • Ercole e Onfale, private collection, Rome • Lot e le figlie and Susanna e i vecchioni, collection Lemme, Rome • Il banchetto di Antonio e Cleopatra, private collection, London • Ester e Assuero, collection Cei, Florence • Allegoria delle Arti e delle Scienze, Dyrham Park, South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom • Visione di San Felice di Valois and Scena della vita di San Michele, collection of the marquis de Lozoya, Madrid • Continenza di Scipione, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, New York, United States • San Giovanni Battista in preghiera, Ringling Museum, Sarasota Florida, United States • Marco Antonio e Cleopatra, royal palace of the Granja de San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain • Portrait of Lady Anne Howard, 1759, Ingatestone, Essex, United Kingdom • William Beckford fanciullo, 1765, Hamilton collection, Scotland • Cristo morto compianto dagli angeli, 1737, Catedrale San Liberatore, Magliano Sabina, Rieti • La famiglia di Dario davanti Alessandro Magno, private collection, Amsterdam • Adorazione dell'agnello mistico da parte dei ventiquattro anziani dell'Apocalisse, 1735, Musée du Barocco, Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia

Lucretia recounts to her family and friends her rape by Tarquin, and requests vengeance. Engraving by S.F. Ravenet after Andrea Casali., 11th April 1768, by Andrea Casali
Andrea Casali · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection

A man points to a decapitated head lying on the ground as a woman holds him back looking distressed. Engraving by or after A. Casali., by Andrea Casali
Andrea Casali · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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1705
Andrea Casali was born in 1705 at Civitavecchia.
1784
Andrea Casali died in 1784 at Rome.
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Andrea Casali received Order of the Golden Spur.
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