Angeluccio

Angelo, called Angeluccio, a scholar of Claude Lorrain, was living in 1680, but died young. He is mentioned as an artist of considerable talent; his works are perhaps sometimes mistaken for his master's.

According to Pascoli, who was the only biographer who wrote about him in his biography of Claude Lorrain, Angeluccio was Claude Lorrain's apprentice. He also wrote that Angeluccio died young and could work little. He was exclusively a landscape painter. His entire heritage contains of 25 paintings and 35 drawings, dated 1640-1645. Claude Lorrain's influence is noticeable in such paintings as Landscape with Figures and Bridge. "This is a composition with centrally placed foreground figures framed by trees in the middle ground, which in turn stand before a bridge and a distant vista, and was borrowed directly from such paintings by Claude as Pastoral Landscape."

Claude Lorrain's influence on Angeluccio's style was prominent, but it didn't make him an imitator. His paintings are characterized by a blue-green tonality, that was typical of Dutch and Flemish artists. This blending of styles made his works unique and distinguishable.

References

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