Italian painter
The family of Vittorio Amedeo III
Giuseppe Duprà (1703–1784) was an Italian painter born at Turin who was active in the eighteenth century.
Particularly in Turin , Kingdom of Sardinia with his elder brother Domenico , Giuseppe Duprà studied in Rome in his youth, as a disciple of Marco Benefial , from 1750, he began painting in the service of King Charles Emmanuel III in the Piedmontese capital, recommended by art enthusiast the Roman cardinal Alessandro Albani .
In collaboration with his brother, he created portraits and works aimed not only to the Savoyard House , but to the most important royal families: works were commissioned from Paris , Madrid , Austria and Bavaria .
Among his works, are seven portraits of Savoyard princesses preserved today at the Palazzina Di Caccia of Stupinigi , various decorative overdoors for the residence of Venaria and a large painting depicting the family of Vittorio Amedeo III , in the Royal Palace of Turin .
Duprà died at Turin in an advanced age, in 1784.[ 1]
References
^ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1993)
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