Marcello Bacciarelli

Russian Empire · 1731–1818

Marcello Bacciarelli was an Italian-born painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods active in Poland and the Polish, Lithuanian Commonwealth. == Biography == He was born in Rome, and studied there under Marco Benefial. In 1750, with the recommendation of the architect Gaetano Chiaveri, Marcello was recruited to Dresden in Saxony, where he was employed by Elected King Augustus III of Poland. After the death of King Augustus, Marcello went to Vienna, and thence to Warsaw. In Dresden, he met Bernardo Bellotto and worked with this Italian painter throughout his life.

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