Brothers Emperor Joseph II and Emperor Leopold II
Pompeo Batoni, 1769
son of goldsmith
trained as metal smith with father; drawing at private academies in Rome
1727 – moves to Rome; earns living drawing copies of ancient sculpture
-mainly a history painter until 1740s, when he begins making Grand Tour portraits of British aristocrats (more than 50 total)
Pope Benedict XIV, Friedrich II (the Great, King of Prussia),Catherine the Great (Empress of Russia), Maria Theresa (Empress of Austria)
The Fall of Simon Magus, 1746-55 (Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome)
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, 1774 (Holkham Hall, Norfolk)
Bowron, Edgar Peters. Pompeo Batoni: Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007
Clark, Anthony M. Pompeo Batoni: a Complete Catalogue of his Works with an Introductory Text. New York: New York University Press, 1985