Francesco Pozzi (1742Treccani /ref>–?) was an Italian engraver and sculptor.
He was born at
Rome
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and was son of sculptor
Stefano Pozzi
Stefano Pozzi (9 November 1699 – 11 June 1768) was an Italian painter, designer, draughtsman, and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome.
Born in Rome, he was one of four artist sons of his father, an innkeeper: Rocco (1701–74) was ...
, the nephew on his father's side of Rocco Pozzi and on his mother's side of Girolamo Frezza. In conjunction with Coppa and Perini, he engraved some of the plates from the statues in the Clementine Gallery at the
Vatican
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Geography
* Vatican City, an independent city-state surrounded by Rome, Italy
* Vatican Hill, in Rome, namesake of Vatican City
* Ager Vaticanus, an alluvial plain in Rome
* Vatican, an unincorporated community in the ...
. He also engraved a portrait of Pope
Pius VI
Pope Pius VI (; born Count Angelo Onofrio Melchiorre Natale Giovanni Antonio called Giovanni Angelo or Giannangelo Braschi, 25 December 171729 August 1799) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1775 to hi ...
.
As a sculptor he made a ''Latona with the infants Apollo and Artemis'' in
Chatsworth House
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(1824) and the copy of a stolen
satyr
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in the
Fountain of Neptune, Florence
The ''Fountain of Neptune in Florence, Italy,'' () is situated in the Piazza della Signoria (Signoria Square), in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The fountain was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of Francesco d ...