Camilla Guerrieri (1628 – after 1693) was an Italian painter. She is believed to have worked as the first

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 ...

for the

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Camilla Guerrieri was born 1628, in

Fossombrone Fossombrone is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, in the Marche region of central Italy. History The ancient Roman colony of ''Forum Sempronii'' took its name from Gaius Sempronius Gracchus. Near the Furlo Pass, dur ...

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(now Italy). Her father was artist

Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri (1589–1655) was an Italian painter, and Caravaggisto. Guerrieri was born in Fossombrone. In 1606 he travelled to Rome where he studied under some notable artists including Orazio Gentileschi. Returning home in 161 ...

, who taught her how to paint. She married Paolo de'Natti in 1655, the

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of the fortress of

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. In 1651 she painted a

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for Girolamo Giordano, a Pesaro nobleman. When

Vittoria della Rovere Vittoria della Rovere (7 February 1622 – 5 March 1694) was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. She had four children with her husband, two of whom would survive infancy: the future Cosimo III, Tuscany's longes ...

become

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, she moved from Pesaro to Florence and brought with her as a painter Camilla Guerrieri. Many of her works are missing or lost. She died in the parish of

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. A

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book was dedicated to her in 1999, and which other studies have appeared.

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1628 births Date of death unknown Date of death missing 17th-century Italian painters 17th-century Italian women artists Italian court painters Italian portrait painters Italian women painters Painters from Urbino {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub

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