Domenico Duprà

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are Portraits of Princesses of Savoy. Work by Domenico Duprà is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, National Museum of Ancient Art and National Galleries Scotland.

Born at Turin and educated in Rome, Domenico Duprà was a disciple of Francesco Trevisani. He was also strongly influenced by the French school of portrait. From 1719 he began working at the Lisbon court of King John V, the Magnanimous of Portugal, where he remained notably as court painter until 1730. Back in Rome he was employed by the exiled Jacobite court of the Stuarts at the Palazzo Muti. In 1750 he returned to Turin and with his brother Giuseppe Duprà (1703-1784) worked for the royal House of Savoy. He died at Turin in 1770. The Prado Museum preserves three of his works depicting females members of royalty quickly recognizable for its delicate and blushing tonalities recalling pastels.

• Illustration — King John V of Portugal at the Battle of Matapan; 1719 • Illustration — Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval; 1728-30 • Illustration — Patriarch Tomás de Almeida; c. 1725 • Illustration — Maria Antonia of Spain, Queen of Sardinia; c. 1750 • Illustration — Infante Francisco, Duke of Beja; 1729-30