Pier Francesco Guala (15 September 1698 – 27 February 1757), also known as Pierfrancesco and Pietro Francesco, was an eighteenth-century
Italian
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painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth,
Casale Monferrato.
Guala was the seventh of eight siblings of whom only he and a sister survived infancy. His mother died when he was five and he was brought up by his father, Lorenzo, who himself was a painter and perhaps related to the architect
Sebastiano Guala.
Pier Francesco Guala died in
Milan
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on 27 February 1757.
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1698 births
1757 deaths
People from Casale Monferrato
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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