Marcello Bacciarelli

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Marcello Bacciarelli (February 16, 1731 - January 5, 1818) was an Italian painter of the late-baroque and Neoclassic periods.

He studied in Rome under Marco Benefial. In 1750 he was called to Dresden, where he was employed by King Augustus III; after whose deatli he went to Vienna, and thence to Warsaw. He painted a set of the Polish kings, from Boleslaus Chrobry downwards. That of Stanislaus II (Stanislas Augustus Poniatowski) has been engraved by A. de Marcenay de Ghuy, Küstner, and A. Fogg. Bacciarelli also painted scenes from the History of Poland. He died at Warsaw. A number of his paintings were painted for King Stanisław August Poniatowski of Poland and are in the Royal Castle in Warsaw. These include

• Strength, Reason, Belief, and Justice, in the Old Audience Chamber
• The Flourishing of the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, and Trade on the ceiling of the Old Audience Chamber
• Rebecca and Eleazar in the King's Bedroom
• Esther and Ahasuerus in the King's Bedroom

During Bacciarelli's early years in Warsaw, the young Alexander Kucharsky began to train as a painter in his studio.^[1] Another notable pupil of Bacciarelli's was Kazimierz Wojniakowski.

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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, page 66.