Ferdinando Cavalleri

Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria, Queen of Piedmont, with her sons, 1832.

Ferdinando Cavalleri (1794–1867) was an Italian painter, specializing in history subjects and portrait, active in a Neoclassical-style.

Life

He was born at Turin, and studied art at Rome. He was in later life a professor at the Academy of St. Luke in Rome.

Works

His works include:

• Beatrice Cenci ascending the Scaffold.
• The Burning of Old St Paul's.
• The Death of Leonardo da Vinci.
• Prince Eugene, after the Battle of Peterwardein.
• Self-Portrait (in the Uffizi, Florence).

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Cavalleri, Ferdinando". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.