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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.

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.

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