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Biography of Sebastiano Ricci

Italian Baroque painter and draftsman
born 1659 - died 1734

Also known as: Sebastiano Ricchi, B. Ricci, Sabastian Rici, Sebastian Ritcher, Sebastiano Rizzi, Sab. Ricci, Seb Ricci, Sebn. Ricci, Sebr. Ricci.

Italian decorative painter. Sebastiano Ricci was born in Belluno and is considered a member of the Venetian school, but before he settled in Venice in 1717 Sebastiano Ricci led a peripatetic life, working in numerous Italian cities (Bologna, Rome, Modena, Florence, and Parma) before going to Vienna where he worked in the Schönbrunn Palace.

His unsettled existence is a reflection not only of the demand for his talents but also of his penchant for illicit love affairs, which often led to his having to move in haste, and once almost resulted in his execution. In view of this it is not surprising that Sebastiano Ricci painting is uneven and sometimes shows signs of carelessness, but he had a gift for vivid, fresh colouring, and his itinerant career was important in spreading knowledge of Italian decorative painting.

Little of the decorative work Sebastiano Ricci painter did in England survives except the Resurrection in the apse of the Chelsea Hospital Chapel and some large but damaged canvases on the staircase at Burlington House (now the Royal Academy).

One of the principal figures in the revival of Venetian painting in the 1700s, Sebastiano Ricci dramatic and sumptuous work appealed to ecclesiastical and royal patrons across Europe. Sebastiano Ricci painting was indebted both to Paolo Veronese and other Italian artists of the 1500s and looked ahead to the next generation of Venetian artists including Giambattista Tiepolo and Antonio Guardi.

Ricci began his training in Venice but following a charge of attempted murder, Sebastiano Ricci departed for Bologna in 1681.

Over the next fifteen years, Sebastiano Ricci painter was almost constantly on the move and is known to have worked in Parma, Rome, and Milan. His brushes with the law persisted but Ricci established his career as a decorative painter producing frescos and Sebastiano Ricci paintings for churches and palaces.

Ricci finally returned to Venice in 1696 and received many commissions in the region. Sebastiano Ricci also accepted important commissions in Vienna and Florence and in 1711 traveled to England with his nephew Marco, also an established painter. The luminous, decorative paintings Ricci produced for the British aristocracy secured his international reputation. In his later years, Sebastiano Ricci increasingly collaborated with his nephew, creating Sebastiano Ricci paintings across Europe until shortly before his death in 1734.