Angelo Giacinto Banchero (1744–1793) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period. He was born in

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in Genoese territory. Orphaned at the age of two, his older brother apprenticed him to a local painter. Seeing Angelo's talent, his brother and a Genoese patron, Giovanni Battista Rossi, arranged to have him work in the studio of

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous Allegory, allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign vis ...

in Rome. On his return to

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, he executed a portrait of the new Duke,

Giovanni Battista Cambiaso Giovanni Battista Cambiaso (Genoa, July 19, 1711 - Genoa, December 23, 1772) was the 171st Doge of the Republic of Genoa. Biography On 16 April 1771 Cambiaso was elected doge with 276 votes out of 366 and on 8 February 1772 the sumptuous coro ...

. He also painted the main altarpiece, ''John the Baptist preaches to the mob'', for the church of the Battistine Nuns, near Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. He completed two paintings for a church at Sestri. Slow and meticulous in style, his output was limited. He painted an unfinished altarpiece for the parish church of San Siro a Nervi. A heart ailment led to a stroke at the age of 49 years. One of his pupils was Pietro Pedroni.Notizie Dei Professori del Disegno in Liguria Dalla Fondazione
by Federigo Alizeri, Tipografia Luigi Sambolino, Genoa, 1864, Page 398.

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* * 1744 births 1793 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Genoa 18th-century Italian male artists Artists from the Republic of Genoa {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub