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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni or '''Battoni''' ( 25 January , 1708 , Lucca — 4 February , 1787 , Rome ) was a highly influential Italian Painter whose style incorporated elements of the French Rococo , Bolognese Classicism and nascent Neoclassicism . Upon establishing himself in Rome , Batoni became the most fashionable painter in the city, particularly after his most serious rival - Anton Raphael Mengs - departed for Spain in 1761 . Batoni befriended Winckelmann and, like him, preferred Raphael and Poussin to the Venetian artists then in vogue. His studio was frequented by foreigners, especially Britons, who would commission standing portraits in the milieu of antiquities, ruins, and Objets D'art . Such " Grand Tour ist" portraits by Batoni came to proliferate in the British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in the United Kingdom, where Sir Joshua Reynolds would become its leading practioner. In 1769 the double portrait of Joseph II and Leopold II won an Austrian nobility for Batoni. As an Urban Legend goes, he bequeathed his palette and brushes to Jacques-Louis David . |
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