Ferdinando Cavalleri

Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Piedmont, with her sons, 1832.

Ferdinando Cavalleri (1794–1867) was an Italian history and portrait painter.

Life

He was born at Turin, and studied art at Rome. He was in later life a professor at the Academy of St. Luke.

Works

His works include:

• Beatrice Cenci ascending the Scaffold.
• The Burning of Old St. Paul's.
• The Death of Leonardo da Vinci.
• Prince Eugene, after the Battle of Peterwardein.
• His own Portrait (in the Uffizi, Florence).

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CAVALLERI, Ferdinando" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.