Violante Beatrice Siries

Violante Beatrice Siries
Violante Siries Cerroti's Self portrait
Born	1709 (1709) Florence, Italy
Died	1783 (aged 73–74) Florence, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Painting
Spouse(s)	Giuseppe Cerroti
Patron(s)	Medici family

Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783) was an Italian painter. She was born in Florence and studied under Hyacinthe Rigaud and François Boucher in Paris from 1726. Returning later to Florence she married Giuseppe Cerroti and continued her artistic studies under Conti.

Siries was talented in several genres, but established herself as a famous portraitist. She succeeded in gaining the patronage of the Medici family^[1] and their financial partners the Gondi family in Florence after the death of Giovanna Fratellini (1731) and travelled to Rome and Vienna to execute commissions.

Her most ambitious work was a fourteen figure family group of the emperor Charles VI, the father of Maria Theresa of Austria (1735), and three of her self-portraits are preserved in the Uffizi Gallery. In later life Siries became a respected teacher and her pupils included Anna Bacherini Piattoli.

At least one of her self-portraits is part of the Uffizi Gallery's collection.^[2] She is one of the artists whose art is being worked on being restored by the Advancing Women Artists Foundation. She was also mentioned in Jane Fortune's book Invisible Women: Forgotten Artists of Florence, which discusses female Florentine artists.

References[]

Further reading[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Violante Beatrice Siries.

• 2 artworks by or after Violante Beatrice Siries at the Art UK site
• Greer, G.; The Obstacle Race (1979)