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

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  Portrait of Catherine II, c. 1760
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  Caroline Tugendreich, c. 1762
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  Anastasia Sokolova, wife of José de Ribas
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  Anna Chernysheva
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  Charlotte Amalie
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  Heinrich Schimmelmann, 1762
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  Semën Kirillovič Naryškin
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  Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich
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  Egmont von Chasôt
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  Diana and Endymion

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 580.