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Francesco Zuccarelli was an Italian Rococo painter. He was born at Pitigliano, in southern Tuscany, where he initially apprenticed with Paolo Anesi. Zuccarelli then worked in Rome with Pietro Nelli and perhaps Andrea Locatelli. In 1732, he settled Venice and became famous as one of the most desired landscape painters of the 18th century. Having visited England on a previous occasion, Zuccarelli was induced by some patrons to return there in 1752, and he remained there until 1773. He later settled in Florence, where he died in 1788.

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Zuccarelli, who was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy, enjoyed the patronage of royalty, and of many wealthy English collectors, for whom he executed his principal works, which were generally a landscape or veduta with classic ruins and small figures. His paintings often bear a mark representing a pumpkin, a pictorial representation of his name, which signifies little pumpkin. Zuccarelli was reputed to have trained Giuseppe Zais and influenced Vittorio Amadeo Cignaroli.

Mountain Landscape with Washerwoman and Fisherman Landscape with Penitent Magdalenec. 1728 Drawing, Pen, Brown Ink, Chalk 264 x 432 mm British Museum Self Portrait, 1736 or 1738, Chalk on Laid Paper, Royal Academy of Arts Landscape with Figures Next to a Stream, c. 1736, Oil on Canvas, 41 x 62 cm, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo The Rape of Europe, 1740-1750, Oil on Canvas, 142 x 208 cm, Accademia de Venice Landscape with Girls at the River, 1760s, Oil on Canvas, 118 x 137 cm, Accademia de Venice Landscape, First half of 18th century, Oil on Canvas, Ca’ Rezzonico Landscape with a Woman Leading a Cow, Before 1774, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 88 cm, Hermitage Museum Bull Hunting, c. 1736, Oil on Canvas, 114 x 150 cm, Accademia de Venice Margherita Tass, 1748, Oil on Canvas, 41 x 51 cm, Accademia de Venice Bacchanal, 1740-1750,Oil on Canvas, 142 x 210 cm, Accademia de Venice

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