Niccolo Cassana
Italian , 1659 - 1714
was an Italian painter born in Venice and active during the late-Baroque. He trained with his father, Giovanni Francesco Cassana, a Genoese painter, who had been taught the art of painting by Bernardo Strozzi. He painted a "Conspiracy of Catiline" for the Gallery at Florence. Having painted portraits of the Florentine court, and also of some of the English nobility, Nicoletto was invited to England, and introduced to Queen Anne, who sat to him for her likeness, and conferred on him many marks of favour. He died in London in 1714 Related Paintings of Niccolo Cassana :. | St. Victor Hill | Der Kunstler vor Notre Dame | Pyramus and Thisbe | Still Life of Flowers | Pifferari | Related Artists: Leon CognietFrench Academic Painter, 1794-1880,was a French painter. Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guerin at the same time as Delacroix and Gericault. He was a resident at the Villa Medici, in Rome, from 1817 to 1822. A romantic painter, his main subjects were history and portraits, and in 1817 he won the Prix de Rome. He died in Paris in 1880. Jean - Andre RixensFrench, 1846 - 1924 royal academyunknown artist, mid 19th century
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