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Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Hanfstangl ptio/o) (Berlin Gallery FATHERLY ADVICE PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS. with the heraldic painter Morrettini. By studyof the great masters, and by copying the designsof men like Metelli, Colonna, and others, he raisedhimself to a higher place in art. His pictureswere chiefly interiors, with much elaborate decora-tion. Some of them were painted after the notionsof Count Algarotti, Tesis patron, and among hisengravings was a portrait of his patroness, theCountess Algarotti. He also left many plates ofvases, foliage, arabesques, etc. He died in 1766. TESTA, Giovanni Cesare, the nephew of PietroTesta, born at Rome about the year 1630, is sup-posed to have been taught by his uncle, afterwhose designs he etched. He died in 1655. Wehave, among others, the following plates by him: Portrait of Pietro Testa; J Cesar Testa, sc. The Death of Dido; after P. Testa. The Centaur Chiron teaching Achilles to throw the Javelin ; after the same.The Emperor Titus consulting Basilides respecting his exp

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