Jacopo Amigoni Italian, 1682-1752

Jacopo Amigoni (Venice, Italy 1682 – Madrid, Spain 1752)

After completing his training in Venice, he spent most of his career abroad, travelling across Europe. His years in Germany were fundamental, where he adopted first the Rococo and then the English style. During this period, his paintings were inspired by mythology and history as well as producing portraits of the British monarchy and aristocracy.

Now his paintings are characterised by light colours and pleasant configurations, with playful figures. Bright and extremely elegant canvases with a profound compositional clarity make Amigoni one of the greatest representatives of the Arcadian and Rococo eras.

His style influenced Giuseppe Nogari, another renowned Rococo painter in the eighteenth century. His pupils included artists Charles Joseph Flipart, Michelangelo Morlaiter, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Joseph Wagner, and Antonio Zucchi.

In 1747 he moved to Madrid to work as a portrait artist at the court of King Ferdinand VI, where he died in 1752.