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DEATH: 1788 ZUCCARRELLI
^ Died on 30 December 1788: Francesco Zuccarelli, Florentine landscape painter born on 15 August 1702. — Zuccarelli worked principally in Venice and England. He met Richard Wilson in Venice in 1751 and they exchanged paintings; in 1752 he went to London and remained until 1762. He returned to London in 1765 and stayed until 1771, being elected a Founder-Member of the Royal Academy in 1768. His light and facile style of landscape painting, with picturesque peasantry, was very popular in England and was preferred to the graver style of Wilson. An example of Zuccarelli's work is his grand historical landscape, Cadmus Killing the Dragon (1765).
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— Bacchanal (1750, 142x210cm) _ The Tuscan painter Francesco Zuccarelli came to Venice in 1732. He was familiar with trends in European painting, having visited London and Paris. His ideal pastoral landscapes are characterized by an arcadian grace in the use of color, by a harmonious rhythm of gesture, a softness of tone and a hazy atmosphere filling the spacious vistas. In the idyllic countryside, pastoral or mythological scenes are set against a brilliant green or water-side background. The paintings are sentimental, sometimes achieving a refined lyricism in keeping with the light-hearted ideals of the time.
— The Rape of Europa (1750, 142x208cm) _ Much loved by collectors, Zuccarelli specialized in painting luminous Arcadian landscapes. His Tuscan origins are suggested by the clarity and rationality of his compositions. The figures, drawn from classical myths, enhance the refined aristocratic quality of his paintings.

Died on a 30 December:
1940 Walter Kurt Wiemken, Swiss artist born on 14 September 1907.
1917 Federigo Zandomeneghi, Italian artist born on 02 June 1841.
1915 Hugo Wilhelm Kauffmann, German artist born on 07 August 1844.
1885 Martha Darley (or Durley) Mutrie, British artist born on 26 August 1824.
1839 William Hilton the Younger, British artist born on 03 June 1786. — LINKS
1672 Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch artist born in 1601. — Relative? of Abraham Bloemaert [25 Dec 1564 – 27 Jan 1651]?

Born on a 30 December:
1788 Edouard Henri Théophile Pingret, French artist who died in 1875.
1746 François-André Vincent, French Neoclassical painter, specialized in historical subjects, who died on 03 August 1816. — LINKS — The Ploughing Lesson. (an VI = 1798, 213cmx313cm) The upper part of the canvas was burnt in a fire on 07 December 1870. There are two preparatory drawings; three studies in paint also exist. The scene attests to the physiocratic ideas as found in Treatise on the Cultivation of the Land (1750) by the agronomist Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (20 Jul 1700 bapt - 22 Aug 1782) and Rural Philosophy or General and Individual Economy of Agriculture (1764, 3 volumes) by the economist Mirabeau (1715-89). It may depict the family of the future Girondin member of the National Convention, François Bernard Boyer-Fonfrède (1766-93), with his wife Marie-Anne, née Barrère, and their children Geneviève and Jean-François Bernard, who is having a ploughing lesson.
1677 Felice Rubbiani, Italian artist who died on 18 October 1752.

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