Domenico Duprà
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File:Maria Barbara de Braganza.jpg Barbara of Portugal, by Domenico Dupra ]]
Giorgio Domenico Duprà (1689–1770) was an Italian rococo artist who served as a court painter to the House of Braganza, in Lisbon, and the House of Savoy, in Turin.
Life
Born at Turin and educated in Rome, Domenico Duprà was a disciple of Francesco Trevisani. He was also strongly influenced by the French school of portrait. From 1719 he began working at the Lisbon court of King John V, the Magnanimous of Portugal, where he remained notably as court painter until 1730.
Back in Rome he was employed by the exiled Jacobite court of the Stuarts at the Palazzo Muti.
In 1750 he returned to Turin and with his brother Giuseppe Duprà (1703-1784) worked for the royal House of Savoy. He died at Turin in 1770. The Prado Museum preserves three of his works depicting females members of royalty quickly recognizable for its delicate and blushing tonalities recalling pastels.Rinaldis, Aldo De. L'arte in Roma dal Seicento al Novecento. Bologna, 1948.
Gallery
File:D.JoaoVMatapão.jpg|King John V of Portugal at the Battle of Matapan; 1719
File:D. Jaime Alvares Pereira de Mello, Duque de Cadaval.png|Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval; 1728-30
File:Patriarca D. Tomás de Almeida (c. 1725) - Domenico Duprà.png|Patriarch Tomás de Almeida; c. 1725
File:Domenico, Duprà - Maria Antonia of Spain - Prado.jpg|Maria Antonia of Spain, Queen of Sardinia; c. 1750
File:Infante D. Francisco filho Rei D. Pedro II.jpg|Infante Francisco, Duke of Beja; 1729-30
Bibliography
- Aldo de Rinaldis, " L'Arte in Roma ", Bologna 1948
- Nicola Spinosa, "La pittura in Italia. Il Settecento", vol. Il, Milan, 1990
References
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- [http://www.artnet.fr/artist/565793/giorgio-domenico-dupra.html Artnet's artists' directory ]
External links
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Category:18th-century Italian painters
Category:People from the Savoyard state
Category:Expatriates in Portugal
Category:Expatriates in the Papal States
Category:Italian male painters
Category:Italian court painters