Niccolò Cassana

Niccolò Cassana (1659 - 1714), often called Nicoletto was an Italian painter born in Venice.

He became a disciple of his father, Giovanni Francesco Cassana, a Genoese, who had been taught the art of painting by Bernardo Strozzi. Having painted portraits of the Florentine court, and also of some of the English nobility, Nicoletto was invited to England, and introduced to Queen Anne, who sat to him for her likeness, and conferred on him many marks of favour. He died in London in 1714, having given way to drinking in his later years.

Also called ‘’Nicoletto. He was a pupil and son of the painter Giovanni Francesco Cassana, whom he assisted. A pupil was Fortunatus Pasquetti.

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