Johann Dominik Bossi (1767–1853), also known as ''Domenico Bossi'', was an Italian painter. Bossi, a student of

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Life history Domenico was born in ...

, was born in

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and worked primarily as a miniaturist in

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, Sweden and

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before he settled down in

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, where he lived at ''Theresien Straße 19'' in

around 1850. In Munich he was appointed a

court painter A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or princely family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Painters were the most common, but the cour ...

. Bossi was the founder of a collection, which included a significant group of Tiepolo drawings amongst others. The collection passed to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (1825–1881), and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826–1881). The ''Bossi-Beyerlen collection'' was sold at auction in Stuttgart and dispersed in March 1882.''Master Drawings London 2007''
Graffiti Summer 2007, page 13.

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