Stefano Torelli

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Portrait of Caroline Tugendreich by Torelli, ca. 1762.

Portrait of Catherine II

Stefano Torelli (1712–1784) was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna. He studied first under his father, Felice Torelli, and then under Francesco Solimena. The future King of Poland, Augustus III, brought him to Dresden in 1740, where he painted altar-pieces and ceiling decorations, many destroyed in the Seven Years' War. He painted figures in Canaletto's twenty-nine views of Dresden (1741). In 1762 he was summoned to the Russian court where he painted ceilings in the Royal Palace, and some portraits, among the latter one of the Empress Elizabeth in armor. He was a clever caricaturist, and etched a few plates. He died in St. Petersburg.

References

Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 580.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 39647560 LCCN: no2007151136 ISNI: 0000 0000 6661 986X GND: 122446879 BNF: cb14960568h ULAN: 500020192

Persondata
Name	Torelli, Stefano
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1712
Place of birth	Bologna
Date of death	1784
Place of death	Saint Petersburg

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