Anna Pasetti was an Italian pastellist active between 1800 and 1806.
Pasetti, a deafmute, lived in Venice and assisted Lodovico Gallina, Jacopo Guarana, and Pietro Tantin as a copyist of both paintings and engravings. Giovanni Antonio Moschini singled her out among Venetian women pastellists. Two pieces, both copies after prints by John Raphael Smith, are in the collection of the Ca' Rezzonico. [1]
Jacopo Amigoni, also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.
John Russell was an English painter renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques.
Joseph, Baron Ducreux was a French noble, portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver, who was a successful portraitist at the court of Louis XVI of France, and resumed his career at the conclusion of the French Revolution. He was made a baron and premier peintre de la reine, and drew the last portrait ever made of Louis XVI before the king's execution. His less formal portraits reflect his fascination with physiognomy and show an interest in expanding the range of facial expressions beyond those of conventional portraiture.
Charles Germain de Saint Aubin was a French draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV. Published a classic reference on embroidery, L'Art du Brodeur in 1770. In addition to his embroidery designs, he was known for his drawings and engravings.
Charmentray is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It was the birthplace of painter Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin.
Lodovico Gallina was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia. Born to poor parents in Brescia, he was initially a pupil of Antonio Dusi. Under the patronage of Luigi Chizzola and Faustino Lechi, he was sent to be instructed in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
Guibeville is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France.
Mary Benwell, married name Codd, was an English artist, a miniaturist and pastellist.
Jacopo Guarana was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque period who was born in Verona. He was active mainly in Venice and its mainland territories.
Giuseppe Piattoli the Younger was an Italian painter and engraver, active mainly in Florence.
Pasetti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Wilhelhmine von Zenge was a German pastellist. Born either in Berlin or in Frankfurt, she was the daughter of a general, and became engaged to Heinrich von Kleist in 1800. In 1811, however, Kleist committed suicide with a friend. Instead, she married Wilhelm Traugott Krug three years later. She died in Leipzig.
Jeanne-Angélique Boquet, sometimes Bocquet, was a French pastellist who was active around 1774.
Faustina Bracci Armellini (1785–1857) was an Italian pastellist
Caterina Amigoni Castellini was an Italian pastellist living in the Spanish Empire.
Apollonia van Veen was a Dutch pastellist.
Margherita Terzi was a Venetian pastellist of the eighteenth century.
Sophie Friederike Dinglinger (1736–1791) was a German painter.
Marie-Geneviève Hérault was a French painter.
Martha Isaacs, later Higginson was an English painter.