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Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728 - 1779) was active/lived in Germany, Italy.  Anton Mengs is known for Neoclassical portrait, figure painting, fresco murals.

Anton Raphael Mengs (March 22, 1728 – June 29, 1779) was a German (Saxon) painter, active in Dresden, Rome and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo* period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical* painting, which replaced Rococo as the dominant painting style.

Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs [da], a Danish painter who eventually established himself at Dresden, where the court of Saxonian-Polish electors and kings was. His older sister, Therese Maron, was also a painter, as was his younger sister, Julia.

His and Therese's births in Bohemia were mere coincidence. Their mother was not their father's wife; Ismael carried on a years-long affair with the family's housekeeper, Charlotte Bormann. In an effort to conceal the births of two illegitimate children, Ismael took Charlotte, under the pretext of "vacations", to the nearest bigger town abroad, Ústí nad Labem (90 km   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2320 characters.]  Artist bio

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