Stefano Torelli
Stefano Torelli (1712–1784) was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna. He studied first under his father, Felice Torelli, and then under Francesco Solimena. The future King of Poland, Augustus III, brought him to Dresden in 1740, where he painted altar-pieces and ceiling decorations, many destroyed in the Seven Years' War. He painted figures in Canaletto's twenty-nine views of Dresden (1741). In 1762 he was summoned to the Russian court where he painted ceilings in the Royal Palace, and some portraits, among the latter one of the Empress Elizabeth in armor. He was a clever caricaturist, and etched a few plates. He died in St. Petersburg.
Gallery[]
Portrait of Catherine II, c. 1760
Caroline Tugendreich, c. 1762
Anastasia Sokolova, wife of José de Ribas
Anna Chernysheva
Charlotte Amalie
Heinrich Schimmelmann, 1762
Semën Kirillovič Naryškin
Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich
Egmont von Chasôt
Diana and Endymion
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 580.CS1 maint: location (link)
- 1712 births
- 1784 deaths
- 18th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Italian etchers
- Painters from Bologna
- Italian painter, 18th-century birth stubs