Andrea Casali
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Andrea Casali (c. 1720-1770) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.
He was born at Civitavecchia, and is said to have been a pupil of Sebastiano Conca. He traveled to England in 1748, and stayed there for a two decades, and where he was a teacher to James Durno. Some sources claim a birthdate of 1705 [1]. He was also called the Chevalier . He remained in England till 1766, after which he lived for some years at Rome. He etched
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- The Virgin and Child after Raphael.
- St. Edward the Martyr.
- Lucretia lamenting her fate.
- The Princess Gunhilda or Innocence Triumphant.
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- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, pages 245-246.
- Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks, page 45-46.
- Masterpieces from Yorkshire Houses. York City Art Gallery, Alastair Laing. The Burlington Magazine (1994); page 196.
