Bartolomeo Nazari

The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bergamo, Venice and Rome. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of Samuel Egerton. Work by Bartolomeo Nazari is recorded in the collections of Ashmolean Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, National Gallery of Ireland and Harvard Art Museums.

• Name — Bartolomeo Nazari • Born — 31 May 1693 • Birthplace — Clusone, Bergamo, Republic of Venice • Died — 24 August 1758 • Place of death — Milan, Duchy of Milan • Field — Painting • Training — Angelo Trevisani • Movement — Baroque, Rococo

Bartolomeo Nazari was born in Clusone, near Bergamo, to a lower-middle class family. By 1716, he had become an apprentice under Angelo Trevisani. In 1723 he visited the Roman studio of Angelo's brother, Francesco Trevisani. He also studied with Benedetto Luti. Nazari may have known Fra Galgario, the renowned portraitist from Bergamo, and is described by some as his pupil. He returned to Venice in 1724, and was registered with the Fraglia dei Pittori, the Venetian painters' guild, by 1726. In 1744, he travelled to Frankfurt to paint the emperor Charles VII and his family and other members of the court. In 1756, he was inducted into the newly founded Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice. His son Nazario Nazari was also a painter, as was his daughter Maria. Among his patrons were Consul Joseph Smith and the former general Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (who owned over eight of his portrait paintings). He painted the portraits of a number of operatic singers including Farinelli. He died in Milan, returning from Genoa, where he had painted the Doge Giovanni Giacomo Grimaldi.

• Illustration — Portrait of Farinelli (Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi)(1705-1782) • Illustration — Gian Rinaldo Carli Ca' Rezzonico Venice • Illustration — Samuel Egerton Ca' Rezzonico Venice • Illustration — Old man in an eastern attire • Illustration — Faustina Bordoni • Illustration — Angelo Maria Quirini

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