Pompeo Batoni

1708–1787 · Baroque

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" led the artist to specialise in portraits.

39 paintings

• Saint Andrew (1740–43)
• Allegory of Peace and War (1776)
• Don José Moñino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca (c. 1776)
• The Fall of Simon Magus (c. 1745–50)
• Study for "Antiochus and Stratonice" (c. 1746)
• Portrait of Izabela née Lubomirska, Wife of Ignacy Potocki (1755–1783) (1780)
• Portrait of Aleksandra née Lubomirska, Wife of Stanisław Potocki (1758–1831) (1780)
• The Triumph of Venice (1737)
• Stephen Beckingham (1730 or 1731-1813) (1752)
• Pope Benedict XIV presenting the Encyclical 'Ex Omnibus' to the Comte de Stainville, later Duc de Choiseul (1757)
• Portrait of John Woodyeare (1750)
• Portrait of a Woman, traditionally identified as Margaret Stuart, Lady Hippisley (1785)
• William Weddell (1765)
• James Caulfeild, fourth Viscount Charlemont (Later first Earl of Charlemont) (1753)
• Maddalena penitente (1742)
• Study for the Portrait of Emperor Joseph II. (1769)
• Portrait of William Legge, Second Earl of Dartmouth (1756)
• Bust-length portrait of Pope Clement XIII (1772)
• Study for "Antiochus and Stratonice" (1746)
• Allegory of the Arts (1740)
• Portrait of Cardinal Jean-François Joseph de Rochechouart (1762)
• Portrait of a Man in a Green Suit
• The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche (1756)
• Portrait of John Talbot, later 1st Earl Talbot (1773)
• Christ in Glory with Saints Celsus, Julian, Marcionilla and Basilissa (1736)
• Thetis takes Achilles from the Centaur Chiron (1770)
• The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773)
• Emperor Joseph II with Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany (1769)
• The Virgin of the Annunciation (1741)
• Diana and Cupid (1761)
• Portrait of a Young Man (ca. 1760–65)
• The Crucifixion (1762)
• Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty (1746)
• Portrait of Richard Milles (1758)
• Portrait of a Gentleman (c. 1762)
• Francis Basset, I Baron of Dunstanville (1778)
• George Legge, Viscount Lewisham (1778)
• Portrait of the Countess Maria Benedetta di San Martino (1785)
• Self-portrait (1770)