Marcello Bacciarelli

Marcello Bacciarelli
Marcello Bacciarelli
	Self-portrait, 1793
Born	16 February 1731; Rome, Papal States
Died	5 January 1818 (aged 86); Warsaw, Congress Poland
Nationality	Polish-Italian
Known for	Painting, drawing
Movement	Baroque, Neoclassicism

Marcello Bacciarelli (Italian pronunciation: [marˈtʃɛllo battʃaˈrɛlli]; 16 February 1731 – 5 January 1818) was an Italian-born painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods active in Poland and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Biography

He was born in

Stanisław II Augustus

in 1766 to become the Director of the newly founded Royal Buildings and Estates.

In Dresden, he married Friederike Richter, a woman painter known for miniature portraits. In Vienna, Marcello painted portraits of the imperial family, including the four daughters of Maria Teresa,

Izabela Lubomirska in her wedding gown, that she commissioned years later after her marriage.^[3] Bacciarelli was also keen in painting culturally significant scenes from the history of Poland. Following the partitions of Poland and after Napoleon's rise to power he moved to the Duchy of Warsaw, a client state of the First French Empire

and died in 1818.

A number of his paintings were painted for King Stanisław II Augustus of Poland and are in the Royal Castle in Warsaw. These include:

Strength, Reason, Belief, and Justice, in the Old Audience Chamber
The Flourishing of the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, and Trade on the ceiling of the Old Audience Chamber
Rebecca and Eleazar in the King's Bedroom
Esther and Ahasuerus in the King's Bedroom

During Bacciarelli's early years in Warsaw, the young Alexander Kucharsky began to train as a painter in his studio.^[4] Another notable pupil of Bacciarelli's was Kazimierz Wojniakowski.

Gallery

Works of Marcello Bacciarelli located in the Royal Palace in Warsaw.
Stanisław II Augustus, King of Poland
Count Brühl
King John II Casimir
Augustus the Strong
Archduchess Maria Christina
Blue Marquise
Anna Lampel
Izabella Branicka
Stanisław Poniatowski
Countess Henrietta Friederika von Bünau

References

Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 66.

^ Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures the Property of JP Morgan, Volume 3 by GC Williamson (1905).
^ K. Niemira, Piu bravo pittore che fosse in Vienna, or Marcello Bacciarelli on the Habsburg Court and in Viennese Salons, „Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw”, 2019, no 8 (44), pp. 223-253.
^ The Ideal Eighteenth-Century Wedding Gown of Izabela Lubomirska at the Wilanów Palace Museum (accessed 9 November 2011)]
^ Le peintre KUCHARSKY Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine at museelouisxvii.com (accessed 28 December 2007)

[1] Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures the Property of JP Morgan, Volume 3 by GC Williamson (1905).

[2] K. Niemira, Piu bravo pittore che fosse in Vienna, or Marcello Bacciarelli on the Habsburg Court and in Viennese Salons, „Journal of the National Museum in Warsaw”, 2019, no 8 (44), pp. 223-253.

[3] The Ideal Eighteenth-Century Wedding Gown of Izabela Lubomirska at the Wilanów Palace Museum (accessed 9 November 2011)]

[4] Le peintre KUCHARSKY Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine at museelouisxvii.com (accessed 28 December 2007)

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