Ritratto di Rodolfo Brignole Sale - Betti

Sigismondo Betti (January 25, 1700 in

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

– after 1783 in Florence) was an Italian painter. Betti worked mostly in

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and in

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. He was a pupil of

Antonio Puglieschi Antonio Puglieschi (Florence, 1660 – Florence, 1732) ''A Checklist of Painters from c1200-1994: Represented in the Witt Library''. By Witt Library, 1995. was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. he trained ini ...

and a fresco painter

Matteo Bonechi Matteo Bonechi (8 November 1669 in Florence – 27 February 1756 in Florence) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He trained under Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani. He also executed works in the church of ...

. He initially painted in Tuscany, but moved to Genoa in 1737, and a decade later to Varallo.Dictionary of Pastellist Artists
short biography.

References

1700 births 18th-century Italian painters Artists from the Republic of Genoa Italian male painters Painters from Florence Year of death missing 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub