Stefano Torelli

Stefano Torelli (1712–1784) was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna. He studied first under his father, Felice Torelli, and then under Francesco Solimena. The future King of Poland, Augustus III, brought him to Dresden in 1740, where he painted altar-pieces and ceiling decorations, many destroyed in the Seven Years' War. He painted figures in Canaletto's twenty-nine views of Dresden (1741). In 1762 he was summoned to the Russian court where he painted ceilings in the Royal Palace, and some portraits, among the latter one of the Empress Elizabeth in armor. He was a clever caricaturist, and etched a few plates. He died in St. Petersburg.

Gallery

• Portrait of Catherine II, c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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• Caroline Tugendreich, c. 1762
  Caroline Tugendreich, c. 1762
• Anastasia Sokolova, wife of José de Ribas
  Anastasia Sokolova, wife of José de Ribas
• Anna Chernysheva
  Anna Chernysheva
• Charlotte Amalie
  Charlotte Amalie
• Heinrich Schimmelmann, 1762
  Heinrich Schimmelmann, 1762
• Semën Kirillovič Naryškin
  Semën Kirillovič Naryškin
• Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich
  Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich
• Egmont von Chasôt
  Egmont von Chasôt
• Diana and Endymion
  Diana and Endymion

References

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