Domingo Antonio Velasco
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Velasco's portrait of Domenico Scarlatti, made around 1739 after he received from D. João V the Cross of the Order of Santiago.
Domingo Antonio Velasco was an Italian painter. He was best known for his portrait of composer Domenico Scarlatti,[1] which commemorates the musician's initiation into the Order of Santiago on 21 April 1738 by King John V of Portugal.[2]
References[]
- ^ Domingo Antonio Velasco Portrait of Domenico Scarlatti (1686-1757) at the 1st Art Gallery
- ^ Robert Lewis, Marshall (2003). Eighteenth-century keyboard music. Routledge. p. 161. ISBN 0-415-96642-6.
Categories:
- 18th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Italian painter, 18th-century birth stubs