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LONGHI, Alessandro
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Portrait_of_Jacopo_Gradenigo_sg
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1778-81
Oil_on_canvas,_233_x_137_cm
Museo_Civico,_Padua
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Portrait of Jacopo Gradenigo sg
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Oil on canvas, 233 x 137 cm
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Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1733, Venezia, d. 1813, Venezia).
Painter, engraver and writer, son of (1) Pietro Longhi. He must have received his first artistic training from his father, although the only evidence of this is the similarity of their styles. He was apprenticed to Giuseppe Nogari, one of the better Venetian portrait painters of the first half of the eighteenth century, and his earliest works are bust-length, mostly life-size portraits in Nogari's style. He first exhibited in 1757 and by 1758 must have been considered a reasonably established artist,
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