Pietro Labruzzi portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Pietro Labruzzi (1739–1805) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period, active in

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and

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. He is best known for his altarpieces and portraits. He was born and died in

. Pietro was recruited as a painter for the court of Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland. Among his works is an altarpiece of the Chapel of the Madonna for the church of

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in Rome. His younger brother Carlo Labruzzi was a respected landscape painter in Rome. His son, Tommasso Pietro Labruzzi, was a history painter in Rome, died in 1808. One of his pupils was .George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City
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1739 births 1805 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Polish male painters Italian neoclassical painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-stub