Antonio Zucchi

Antonio Zucchi
Portrait (1781) by his wife, Angelica Kauffman
Born	1726
Died	1795
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Painting
Movement	vedutisti

Antonio Zucchi (1726–1795) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period. Born in Venice and died in Rome. He married the painter Angelica Kauffman, who late in life, moved with him to Rome. He produced a number of etchings of capriccio and veduta of classical buildings or ruins. He worked with Robert Adam in the decoration of palaces in England. In England, he was elected as an associate to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1770. He was a pupil of the painter Francesco Fontebasso and Jacopo Amigoni.

References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. 
• Antonio Zucchi Biography & Selected Works

External links

•  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Zucchi, Antonio Pietro". Dictionary of National Biography 63. London: Smith, Elder & Co.