Francesco Hayez [1]

Nationality : Italian Romantic Painter, 1791-1882

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  • Title : The Kiss
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Oil Painting ID: 35343


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  • Title : Portrait of Massimo d' Azeglio
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  • Title : Portrait of Antonietta Tarsis Basilico
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  • Title : Ruth
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  • Title : Portrait of Antonietta Vitali Sola
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  • Title : Self-portrait at age 88
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  • Title : Portrait of Antonietta Negroni Prati Morosini
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  • Title : Vase of Flowers on the Window of a Harem
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  • Title : Ulysses at the court of Alcinous
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Oil Painting ID: 35351


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  • Title : Romeo and Juliet
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Francesco Hayez
Francesco Hayez (February 10, 1791 - December 21, 1882) was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits. Hayez came from a relatively poor family from Venice. His father was of French origin while his mother, Chiara Torcella, was from Murano. The child Francesco, youngest of five sons, was brought up by his mother's sister, who had married Giovanni Binasco, a well-off shipowner and collector of art. From childhood he showed a predisposition for drawing, so his uncle apprenticed him to an art restorer. Later he became a student of the painter Francisco Magiotto with whom he continued his studies for three years. He was admitted to the painting course of the New Academy of Fine Arts in 1806, where he studied under Teodoro Matteini. In 1809 he won a competition from the Academy of Venice for one year of study at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He remained in Rome until 1814, then moved to Naples where he was commissioned by Joachim Murat to paint a major work depicting Ulysses at the court of Alcinous. In the mid 1830s he attended the "Salotto Maffei" salon in Milan, hosted by Clara Maffei (whose portrait Hayez painted for her husband), and he was still in Milan in 1850 when he was appointed director of the Academy of Brera there.

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