Antonio Zucchi
{{short description|Italian painter}}
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| image = Angelica Kaufmann Antonio Zucchi.jpg
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| caption = Portrait (1781) by his wife, Angelica Kauffman
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| birth_place = Venice, Italy
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1795|12|26|1726|5|1}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
| nationality = Italian
| movement = Vedutisti
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| field = Painting
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Antonio Pietro Francesco Zucchi {{Post-nominals|post-noms=ARA}} (1 May 1726 – 1 December 1795) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Neoclassic period.{{Cite web|url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=6005|title=Antonio Zucchi, A.R.A|website=Royal Academy of Arts Collections|access-date=25 September 2016}}
Life
Zucchi was born in Venice, he studied under his uncle Carlo Zucchi and later Francesco Fontebasso and Jacopo Amigoni.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/biographicalcat00farqgoog#page/n237/mode/1up|title=Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters|last=Farquhar|first=Maria|year=1855|editor-last=Wornum|editor-first=R.O.|pages=207|language=en|via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thefamousartists.com/antonio-zucchi|title=Antonio Zucchi|website=www.thefamousartists.com|access-date=25 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520051826/http://www.thefamousartists.com/antonio-zucchi|archive-date=20 May 2015|url-status=dead}}
He married the painter Angelica Kauffman in 1781, who late in life moved with him to Rome. In Rome Zucchi produced a number of etchings of capriccio and veduta of classical buildings or ruins. He worked with Robert Adam in the decoration of houses in England, including Kenwood, Newby Hall, Osterley Park, Nostell Priory, and Luton House.
In 1756, he was elected to the membership of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. In England, he was elected as an associate to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1770.
Lady Boringdon commissioned him to paint the ceilings of rooms redesigned by Robert Adam at Saltram House in Devon. She also bought paintings from his wife for the house.{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-62773|title=Parker [née Robinson], Theresa (1745–1775), art patron {{!}} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year=2004|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/62773|access-date=2020-03-23|last1=Burnette|first1=Arianne}}
He died in Rome in 1795.
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External links
- {{Art UK bio}}
- {{cite DNB|wstitle=Zucchi, Antonio Pietro|volume=63}}
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Category:18th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:Painters from the Republic of Venice
Category:Italian neoclassical painters
Category:Associates of the Royal Academy
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