Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | Players | Reitknecht with horses seaweed-dynasty | Portrait of a young woman wearing a blue ribbon at her throat | Posthumous portrait of Louise elisabeth de Bourbon | Villani Chronicle | Related Artists: Bernard van orley Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter , c.1488-1551
Alson Skinner Clark 1876-1949 MENGS, Anton Raphael German Neoclassical Painter, 1728-1779
Painter and writer, brother of Theresia Concordia Mengs. His early career was at the Dresden court; thereafter he worked principally in Rome and Madrid, notably on the frescoes at the Villa Albani and the Palacio Real respectively. As an early exponent of Neo-classicism he produced some impressive classical and religious scenes, though he was most accomplished as a portrait painter. Under the influence of Johann Joachim Winckelmann he also wrote some theoretical works, of which the most important is the Gedanken ber die Schenheit und ber den Geschmack in der Malerey (1762). Although acclaimed during his lifetime