Antique Painting: Portrait of a Saint, late 18th century

Teodoro Matteini (Pistoia, May 10, 1754 – Venice, November 16, 1831) - Portrait of "Blessed Matthew of Agrigento" Oil painting on canvas Dimensions: 78x61cm Appraisal: Prof. Alessandro Nesi Teodoro Matteini was an Italian painter, primarily of historical and religious subjects in the neoclassical style. He also executed numerous portraits. Biography His father, Ippolito Matteini, born in 1720, was a decorative painter, who therefore introduced him to art. Later, Teodoro Matteini moved to Rome to assist Domenico Corvi, after which he began collaborating with Anton Raphael Mengs. Then he started his own business, working in the Roman basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina. He was active in Rome, Bergamo, Milan and Venice; in the latter city he was a professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he restored a vast collection of stucco and terracotta models collected by Abbot Filippo Farsetti. He had numerous pupils, including Giovanni Andrea Darif, Bartolomeo Ferracina, Odorico Politi, Giovanni Busato, Sebastiano Santi, Francesco Hayez, Ludovico Lipparini.