Italian painter (1739–1805)
Pietro Labruzzi portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Pietro Labruzzi (1739–1805) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period, active in Rome and Poland . He is best known for his altarpieces and portraits.
He was born and died in Rome . Pietro was recruited as a painter for the court of Stanislaus Augustus, King of Poland .[ 1] Among his works is an altarpiece of the Chapel of the Madonna for the church of Gesù e Maria in Rome.[ 2]
His younger brother Carlo Labruzzi was a respected landscape painter in Rome. His son, Tommasso Pietro Labruzzi , was a history painter in Rome, died in 1808. One of his pupils was William Thomas Hadfield [d ] .[ 3]
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