Giovanni Cendramini

Giovanni Cendramini (1760 – 8 February 1839) was an Italian painter and engraver. He was born in Roncade, Province of Treviso. At the age of 19 years, he came to London and apprenticed with Francesco Bartolozzi, an engraver from Florence, then in England. Cendramini married an English wife and in 1805 was invited to Russia and patronized by the emperor.

Initially forbidden to leave Russia, he escaped with the help of the Neapolitan ambassador at St. Petersburg. On returning to England, he painted a Vision of St Catherine. He is best known for engravings of paintings of old masters such as Paolo Veronese, Leonardo da Vinci, Sebastiano del Piombo, and Giuseppe Ribera. He died in London.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. No. 4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized 18 May 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. 659–660.