Niccolò Cassana

File:Niccolo Cassana self portrait.jpg

Self portrait of Niccolò Cassana, ca. 1695.

Niccolò Cassana (often called Nicoletto; 1659–1714) was an Italian painter born in Venice and active during the late-Baroque. His older brother Giovanni Agostino Cassana was also a painter.

He trained with his father, Giovanni Francesco Cassana, a Genoese painter, who had been taught the art of painting by Bernardo Strozzi. He painted a Conspiracy of Catiline for the Gallery at Florence. Having painted portraits of the Medici 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 favor. He died in London in 1714, having given way to drinking in his later years.

One of his pupils was Fortunato Pasquetti.

See also

• Cassana (family)

References

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Gallery

• Niccolo Cassana Anna Maria Luisa de Medici.jpg

  Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici

• Niccolò Cassana - Portrait of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici - WGA4529.jpg

  Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici (1690s)

• Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany in circa 1687 by Niccolò Cassana.jpg

  Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici (1687)

• Portrait of a Angiola Biondi, a dwarf in the service of Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, 1707, Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence, Niccolò Cassana.jpg

  Angiola Biondi, dwarf in the service of Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, 1707.

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  Violante Beatrice of Bavaria.

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  Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany