Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari

{{Short description|Italian painter (1735–1787)}}

Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735 - 1787) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a late-Baroque and early Neoclassical style.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6_OG1xMON9cC 18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art], page 63.

He was born in Sissa in the Province of Parma; his father, Paolo, was a painter in the Ducal court. Pietro studied under Giuseppe Peroni,[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-melchiorre-ferrari_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ encyclopedia Treccani], Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 46 (1996) by Vincenza Maugeri. and later in the Academy of Fine Arts at Parma under Giuseppe Baldrighi.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dUNkAAAAMAAJ The History of Painting in Italy: The schools of Lombardy, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, and Milan], by Luigi Lanzi, page 141-142.