Giorgio Domenico Duprà (1689-1770) was an Italian

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born at

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who was active in the 18th century. Educated in

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, Domenico Duprà was a disciple of

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. He was also strongly influenced by the French school of portrait. From 1719 he began working at the

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court of King John V, the Magnanimous of Portugal, where he remained notably as court painter until 1730. Back in Rome he was employed by the exiled Jacobite court of the

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at the

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. In 1750 he returned to Turin and with his brother

Giuseppe Duprà Giuseppe Duprà (1703–1784) was an Italian painter born at Turin who was active in the eighteenth century. Particularly in Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia with his elder brother Domenico Duprà, Domenico, Giuseppe Duprà studied in Rome in his ...

(1703-1784) worked for the royal

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. He died at Turin in 1770. The

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preserves three of his works depicting females members of royalty quickly recognizable for its delicate and blushing tonalities recalling

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. Rinaldis, Aldo De. L'arte in Roma dal Seicento al Novecento. Bologna, 1948.

Bibliography

*Aldo de Rinaldis, " L'Arte in Roma ", Bologna 1948 *Nicola Spinosa, "La pittura in Italia. Il Settecento", vol. Il, Milan, 1990

References

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