1713-1782 British Richard Wilson Galleries   Related Paintings of Richard Wilson :. | View from the South-east with the house and bridge beyond the lake and basin | View of Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle (mk08) | The Vale of Narni | View in Windsor Great Park | Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo |
Related Artists:
IL Pensionante del saraceni
active 1610-1620s in Rome
Anton Raffael Mengs
a pastel portrait painter German,1728-1779
SALZILLO, Francisco
Spanish sculptor (b. 1707, Murcia, d. 1783, Murcia). Spanish sculptor of Italian descent. He was trained by his father, Nicol Salzillo (1672-1727), a Neapolitan sculptor who had settled in Murcia, whose first documented work is dated 1700. Francisco also studied with the Jesuits and was taught drawing and sculpture by the cleric and painter Manuel Senchez ( fl 1731-9). He entered the Dominican Order in Murcia as a novice but left to take charge of his father's studio at the latter's death in 1727. Francisco was assisted by his brothers, Juan Antonio Salzillo and Patricio Salzillo, a priest, and by his sister, Ines Salzillo, who specialized in painting carved religious statues. In 1746 Francisco married Juana Vallejo Martenez, and in 1755 he was appointed escultor y modelista by the municipal government (ayuntamiento) and Inspector to the Inquisition for painting and sculpture in Murcia. In 1763 he established an academy