Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder
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Giovanni Battista Lampi the Elder (de: Johann Baptist von Lampi der Ältere; December 31, 1751 – February 11, 1830) was an Austrian historical and portrait painter.
He was born at Romeno, in the County of Tyrol. He became a professor at the Vienna Academy in 1786, but subsequently he resided in Russia, where he devoted himself to portrait painting, and amassed a large fortune. He died at Vienna. He painted a portrait of the Empress Maria Fedorovna. His son, Johann Baptist the Younger, was also a painter.
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 8. http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1.
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