Teresa del Pò (1649–1716), also spelled ''del Po'', was an Italian painter and engraver of the late

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Life

She was born in Rome in 1649, the daughter of Pietro del Pò. She was his second daughter of this name. An earlier Teresa, baptised in Naples in 1646, must have died in

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.Maria Barbara Guerrieri Borsoi
''Del Po, Pietro''
in:

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- Volume 38 (1990) . She is said to have painted in oil and in miniature, and etched a few plates in the style of her father; they included ''Susannah and the Elders'', after

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. She became a member of the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

in Rome, and died in

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in 1716.Bryan,1886-9

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