Anton Raphael Mengs was born in 1728 in Aussig, Bohemia, into an artistic family of German origin. Soon after his birth his parents returned to Saxony. Anton received his earliest training from his father in Dresden and in Rome, where he studied Italian Renaissance painters and worked in the studio of Marco Benefial. When he came back to Dresden in 1745, he became a painter to the Saxon court of Elector Augustus III, who was at the same time the King of Poland. Mengs executed for the court a large number of portraits.
Oil on wood. 67 x 53 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1761. Oil on canvas. 154 x 110 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
1765. Oil on canvas. 48 x 38 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
c. 1765. Oil on canvas. 46 x 25.5 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1765. Oil on canvas. 48 x 38 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
c. 1774-76. Oil on canvas. 388 x 222 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
c. 1774. Oil on canvas. 208 x 153 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
c. 1775. Oil on wood. 102 x 77 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
c. 1777. Oil on canvas. 227 x 153 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1779. Oil on paper, mounted on canvas. 69 x 41 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
1779. Oil on wood. 56.5 x 43 cm. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Oil on canvas. 179 x 130 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
Oil on canvas. 47 x 39 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Oil on wood. 97 x 72.5 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
Oil on canvas, 152 x 110 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
Oil on wood. 258 x 191 cm. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. Read Note.
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Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.