Ferdinando Cavalleri

Italian painter (1794–1867)

Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Piedmont, with her sons, 1832.

Ferdinando Cavalleri (1794–1867) was an Italian painter, specializing in history subjects and portrait, active in a Neoclassical-style.

Life

He was born at Turin, and studied art at Rome. He was in later life a professor at the Academy of St. Luke in Rome.

Works

His works include:

Beatrice Cenci ascending the Scaffold.
The Burning of Old St Paul's.
The Death of Leonardo da Vinci.
Prince Eugene, after the Battle of Peterwardein.
Self-Portrait (in the Uffizi, Florence).

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Cavalleri, Ferdinando". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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