Pier Francesco Guala (15 September 1698 – 27 February 1757), also known as Pierfrancesco and Pietro Francesco, was an eighteenth-century

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active for the most part in the region of his place of birth,

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. Guala was the seventh of eight siblings of whom only he and a sister survived infancy. His mother died when he was five and he was brought up by his father, Lorenzo, who himself was a painter and perhaps related to the architect Sebastiano Guala. Pier Francesco Guala died in

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on 27 February 1757.

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1698 births 1757 deaths People from Casale Monferrato Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{italy-painter-17thC-stub