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Pompeo Batoni

1708 - 1787

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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" led the artist to specialize in portraits. Batoni won international fame largely thanks to his customers, mostly British and Irish gentlemen, whom he portrayed, often with famous Italian landscapes in the background. Such Grand Tour portraits by Batoni were in British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in Great Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pompeo Batoni is the 512th most popular painter (down from 450th in 2019), the 1,503rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,346th in 2019) and the 131st most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pompeo Batoni ranks 512 out of 2,023. Before him are Willem van Aelst, Ivan Bilibin, Fernand Cormon, Jean Clouet, Zinaida Serebriakova, and Dirck van Baburen. After him are Frank Stella, Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Vasily Surikov, José Clemente Orozco, Salomon van Ruysdael, and Johan Jongkind.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1708, Pompeo Batoni ranks 6. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia, Albrecht von Haller, and Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg. After him are 7th Dalai Lama, Safdar Jang, Antiochus Kantemir, Egidio Duni, Georg Dionysius Ehret, and Olof von Dalin. Among people deceased in 1787, Pompeo Batoni ranks 6. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck, Leopold Mozart, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Alphonsus Liguori, and Carl Friedrich Abel. After him are Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Louise of France, Şahin Giray, Johann Karl August Musäus, William Watson, and Princess Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pompeo Batoni ranks 1,503 out of 5,161. Before him are Julia Drusilla (39), Quintus Hortensius (-114), Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (1784), Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1727), Paolo Sorrentino (1970), and Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838). After him are Beniamino Stella (1941), Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486), Princess Marie of Orléans (1813), Gianna Beretta Molla (1922), Muzio Attendolo Sforza (1369), and Alfredo Casella (1883).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Pompeo Batoni ranks 131. Before him are Mariotto Albertinelli (1474), Cosimo Tura (1430), Giovanni Boldini (1842), Cennino Cennini (1360), Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467), and Carlo Dolci (1616). After him are Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486), Alesso Baldovinetti (1425), Stefano di Giovanni (1392), Carlo Maratta (1625), Andrea Solari (1460), and Giuseppe Crespi (1665).

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