Antonio Verrio
Antonio Verrio (* 1636 or 1639; † June 15, 1707 in Hampton Court ) was an Italian Baroque painter . He was mainly active in England, where he was one of the leading exponents of monumental decorative painting during the short period in which baroque ceiling and wall painting was modern there .
Verrio came from Lecce or Naples . According to his own account, he learned painting in Venice and worked in Naples and Toulouse before coming to England in 1671 or 1672. In England he quickly made a career as a painter, especially of wall and ceiling paintings. Probably from 1676 he worked for King Charles II and participated in the decoration of the Whitehall Palace and the painting of the state apartments of Windsor Castle . In 1684, Charles II appointed him as Lely's successor as his court painter . However, James II did not keep him busy as a painter, so he had to work as a royal gardener. As court painter he was replaced by Riley and Kneller . After the Glorious Revolution , Verrio initially refused to accept for the new King William III. to work. Instead, he worked from 1690 at Chatsworth House for the Duke of Devonshire , where he painted the chapel, staircase and state apartments between 1690 and 1698. Between 1694 and 1697 he worked for the Earl of Exeter on the painting of Burghley House . From 1699 he finally worked for King Wilhelm III. In addition to other wall and ceiling paintings in Windsor Castle, he was busy with the expansion of Hampton Court Palace and painted the main staircase, three other rooms in the parade rooms and the Banqueting House in the garden. In 1705 he quit his job because of an eye disease and received a pension from Queen Anne .
Verrio was considered extravagant and presumptuous. In a European comparison his works were criticized by contemporaries as only mediocre. His success was based more on his assertiveness and lack of native English painters than on his artistic prowess. His pupil Laguerre , who worked for from 1684, surpassed him in artistic quality, but was less successful.
literature
- Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse: Painting in Britain, 1530 to 1790 . Yale University press, New Haven 1994. ISBN 0-300-05832-2 , pp. 125-126
- The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-953294-0 , p. 656
- Raffaele De Giorgi, "Couleur, couleur!". Antonio Verrio: un pittore in Europe tra Seicento e Settecento . Edifir, Firenze 2009, ISBN 978-88-7970-449-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historic Royal Palaces: Antonio Verrio, artist. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 14, 2014 ; accessed on January 6, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Verrio, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1636 |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1707 |
| Place of death | Hampton Court |