Giuseppe Panzi
Illustration — The Qianlong Emperor, by Charles-Eloi Asselin (1743-1805) after Giuseppe Panzi. Giuseppe Panzi (潘廷章、1734–before 1812) was a Jesuit painter of the 18th and early 19th century, who worked in the service of the Qianlong Emperor of China. He was the last of the Western painters who worked for the Qianlong Emperor, together with Father Louis Antoine de Poirot (1735–1813).
Giuseppe Panzi

PHGCOM · 1778 painting, photographed at Le Louvre · Public domain
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- painter · missionary · priest
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Illustration — The Qianlong Emperor, by Charles-Eloi Asselin (1743-1805) after Giuseppe Panzi. Giuseppe Panzi (潘廷章、1734–before 1812) was a Jesuit painter of the 18th and early 19th century, who worked in the service of the Qianlong Emperor of China. He was the last of the Western painters who worked for the Qianlong Emperor, together with Father Louis Antoine de Poirot (1735–1813).
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Born at Florence in 1734, died in Beijing in 1812.
Giuseppe Panzi (1734–1812) was a painter, missionary and priest.

Portrait of Mingliang (Qing dynasty, 1776 by either Ignaz Sichelbarth S.J. or Giuseppe Panzi S.J.)
1776 Jesuit painter in China · [1]
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