Antonio Pietro Francesco Zucchi (1 May 1726 – 1 December 1795) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the
Neoclassic period.
Life
Zucchi was born in
Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...
, he studied under his uncle Carlo Zucchi and later
Francesco Fontebasso
''Allegory of Faith'' (v.1750) San Zanipolo Venice
Francesco Fontebasso (4 October 1707 – 31 May 1769) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque or Rococo period of Venice. He first apprenticed with Sebastiano Ricci, but was strongly influ ...
and
Jacopo Amigoni
Jacopo Amigoni (ca. 1685 – September 1752), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portrai ...
.
![Antonio Zucchi - Three dancing nymphs and a reclining cupid in a landscape - 1982](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Antonio_Zucchi_-_Three_dancing_nymphs_and_a_reclining_cupid_in_a_landscape_-_1982.315_-_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg)
He married the painter
Angelica Kauffman in 1781, who late in life moved with him to Rome.
In Rome Zucchi produced a number of etchings of ''
capriccio'' and ''
veduta
A ''veduta'' ( Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''.
Origins
This genre ...
'' of classical buildings or ruins.
He worked with
Robert Adam
Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...
in the decoration of houses in
England
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, including
Kenwood,
Newby Hall
Newby Hall is a country house beside the River Ure in the parish of Skelton-on-Ure in North Yorkshire, England. It is 3 miles south-east of Ripon and 6 miles south of Topcliffe Castle, by which the manor of Newby was originally held. A Grade ...
,
Osterley Park
Osterley Park and House is a Georgian country estate in west London, that straddles the London boroughs of Ealing and Hounslow. Originally dating from the 1570s, the estate contains a number of Grade I and II listed buildings, with the park ...
,
Nostell Priory
Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, England, near Crofton on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733, and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory. The Priory and its contents ...
, and
Luton House
Luton () is a town and unitary authority with borough status, in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 census, the Luton built-up area subdivision had a population of 211,228 and its built-up area, including the adjacent towns of Dunstable an ...
.
In 1756, he was elected to the membership of the
Accademia di Belle Arti
This is a list of the tertiary-level schools or academies of fine art in Italy that are recognised by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of higher education.
Accademie di Belle Arti
The offic ...
in Venice.
In England, he was elected as an associate to the
Royal Academy of Arts in 1770.
Lady Boringdon commissioned him to paint the ceilings of rooms redesigned by Robert Adam at
Saltram House
Saltram House is a grade I listed George II era mansion house located in the parish of Plympton, near Plymouth in Devon, England. It was deemed by the architectural critic Pevsner to be "the most impressive country house in Devon". The ...
in Devon. She also bought paintings from his wife for the house.
He died in
Rome
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in 1795.
References
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1726 births
1795 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Venice
Italian neoclassical painters
Italian vedutisti
Painters of ruins
Angelica Kauffman
Associates of the Royal Academy
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