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Anton Raphael Mengs
1728-1779 Dutch Anton Raphael Mengs Gallery Mengs was born in 1728 at Usti nad Labem (German: Aussig) in Bohemia on 12 March 1728; he died in Rome 29 June 1779. His father, Ismael Mengs, a Danish painter, established himself finally at Dresden, whence in 1741 he took his son to Rome. In Rome, his fresco painting of Parnassus at Villa Albani gained him a reputation as a master painter. The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Quazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting, nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid. There Mengs produced some of his best work, and specially the ceiling of the banqueting-hall of the Royal Palace of Madrid, the subject of which was the Triumph of Trajan and the Temple of Glory. Among his pupils there was Agust??n Esteve. After the completion of this work in 1777, Mengs returned to Rome, and there he died, two years later, in poor circumstances, leaving twenty children, seven of whom were pensioned by the king of Spain. His portraits and autoportraits recall an attention to detail and insight, often lost from the grand manner paintings. Besides numerous paintings in the Madrid gallery, the Ascension and St Joseph at Dresden, Perseus and Andromeda at Saint Petersburg, and the ceiling of the Villa Albani must be mentioned among his chief works. In 1911, Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, possessed a Holy Family, and the colleges of All Souls and Magdalen, at Oxford, possessed altar-pieces by Mengs's hand. In his writings, in Spanish, Italian and German, Mengs has put forth his eclectic theory of art, which treats of perfection as attainable by a well-schemed combination of diverse excellences Greek design, with the expression of Raphael, the chiaroscuro of Correggio, and the colour of Titian. He would have fancied himself the first neoclassicist, while in fact he may be the last flicker of Baroque art. Or in the words of Wittkower, In the last analysis, he is as much an end as a beginning. His intimacy with Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who constantly wrote at his dictation, has enhanced his historical importance, for he formed no scholars, and the critic must now concur in Goethe's judgment of Mengs in Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert; he must deplore that so much learning should have been allied to a total want of initiative and poverty of invention, and embodied with a strained and artificial mannerism. Mengs was famous for his rivalry with the contemporary Italian painter Pompeo Batoni.

 

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Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria oil painting

Painting ID::  78009

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria
Date 1772-73 Medium Oil cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait du cardinal Archinto oil painting

Painting ID::  78078

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait du cardinal Archinto
1756(1756) Oil on canvas 155 x 114 cm (61 x 44.9 in) cjr
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Self-portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  78105

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Self-portrait
1774(1774) Oil on wood 73.5 x 56.2 cm (28.9 x 22.1 in) cjr
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  78158

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Anton Raphael Mengs
portrait
Date ca. 1778(1778) Medium Oil on wood Dimensions 56.5 x 43 cm (22.2 x 16.9 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Maria Luisa von Parma oil painting

Painting ID::  78399

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Maria Luisa von Parma
ca. 1765(1765) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 152 x 110 cm (59.8 x 43.3 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Retrato de la Marquesa de Llano oil painting

Painting ID::  78432

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Retrato de la Marquesa de Llano
1770-1775 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 250 x 148 cm (98.4 x 58.3 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Self portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  78577

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Self portrait
after 1775(1775) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 97.2 x 73 cm (38.3 x 28.7 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Self-portrait oil painting

Painting ID::  78594

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Self-portrait
after 1777(1777) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Infantin Maria Theresa von Neapel oil painting

Painting ID::  78793

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Infantin Maria Theresa von Neapel
1773(1773) Medium Oil on panel Dimensions 103 x 76 cm (40.6 x 29.9 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Richard Wilson oil painting

Painting ID::  78822

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait of Richard Wilson
1752(1752) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 84.6 x 75.2 cm (33.3 x 29.6 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Archduke Ferdinand (1769-1824) and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1770-1809), children of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor oil painting

Painting ID::  78910

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait of Archduke Ferdinand (1769-1824) and Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1770-1809), children of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
1770-1771 Oil on canvas 147 x 96 cm (57.9 x 37.8 in) cjr
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs the later Queen Maria Luisa of Spain oil painting

Painting ID::  79138

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Anton Raphael Mengs
the later Queen Maria Luisa of Spain
1765(1765) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 38 x 48 cm (15 x 18.9 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Infanta Maria Josefa oil painting

Painting ID::  79146

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Infanta Maria Josefa
between 1761(1761) and 1769(1769) Medium Oil cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Charles III of Spain oil painting

Painting ID::  79173

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Charles III of Spain
ca. 1760(1760) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of the Duchess of Huescar oil painting

Painting ID::  79235

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait of the Duchess of Huescar
1757 Medium Oil cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Infantin Maria Theresa von Neapel oil painting

Painting ID::  79466

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Infantin Maria Theresa von Neapel
1773(1773) Medium Oil on panel Dimensions 103 x 76 cm (40.6 x 29.9 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs British painter oil painting

Painting ID::  79477

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Anton Raphael Mengs
British painter
1752(1752) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 84.6 x 75.2 cm (33.3 x 29.6 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Infanta Maria Josefa oil painting

Painting ID::  79851

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait of Infanta Maria Josefa
between 1761(1761) and 1769(1769) Medium Oil cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Charles III of Spain oil painting

Painting ID::  79931

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Portrait of Charles III of Spain
. 1760(1760) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     

 

 

Anton Raphael Mengs Holy Roman Emperor oil painting

Painting ID::  79964

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Anton Raphael Mengs
Holy Roman Emperor
1770-1771 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 147 x 96 cm (57.9 x 37.8 in) cyf
   
   
     

 

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Anton Raphael Mengs
1728-1779 Dutch Anton Raphael Mengs Gallery Mengs was born in 1728 at Usti nad Labem (German: Aussig) in Bohemia on 12 March 1728; he died in Rome 29 June 1779. His father, Ismael Mengs, a Danish painter, established himself finally at Dresden, whence in 1741 he took his son to Rome. In Rome, his fresco painting of Parnassus at Villa Albani gained him a reputation as a master painter. The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Quazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting, nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid. There Mengs produced some of his best work, and specially the ceiling of the banqueting-hall of the Royal Palace of Madrid, the subject of which was the Triumph of Trajan and the Temple of Glory. Among his pupils there was Agust??n Esteve. After the completion of this work in 1777, Mengs returned to Rome, and there he died, two years later, in poor circumstances, leaving twenty children, seven of whom were pensioned by the king of Spain. His portraits and autoportraits recall an attention to detail and insight, often lost from the grand manner paintings. Besides numerous paintings in the Madrid gallery, the Ascension and St Joseph at Dresden, Perseus and Andromeda at Saint Petersburg, and the ceiling of the Villa Albani must be mentioned among his chief works. In 1911, Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, possessed a Holy Family, and the colleges of All Souls and Magdalen, at Oxford, possessed altar-pieces by Mengs's hand. In his writings, in Spanish, Italian and German, Mengs has put forth his eclectic theory of art, which treats of perfection as attainable by a well-schemed combination of diverse excellences Greek design, with the expression of Raphael, the chiaroscuro of Correggio, and the colour of Titian. He would have fancied himself the first neoclassicist, while in fact he may be the last flicker of Baroque art. Or in the words of Wittkower, In the last analysis, he is as much an end as a beginning. His intimacy with Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who constantly wrote at his dictation, has enhanced his historical importance, for he formed no scholars, and the critic must now concur in Goethe's judgment of Mengs in Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert; he must deplore that so much learning should have been allied to a total want of initiative and poverty of invention, and embodied with a strained and artificial mannerism. Mengs was famous for his rivalry with the contemporary Italian painter Pompeo Batoni.