Francesco Morelli (ca. 1767 – ca. 1830) was a French-Italian painter and engraver. He was active in Naples and known as a painter or engraver of Pompeian subjects.[1][2]

He was born in the Franche-Comté, and then traveled to Rome.[3] He completed a series of engravings depicting the so-called Villa of Horace in Licenza with Hackert and Luigi Sabatelli.[4]

Another Francesco Morelli from Florence was the first and dear mentor of Giovanni Baglione.

References

  1. Nova bibliotheca pompeiana: L–Z, by Laurentino García y García (1998), p. 837.
  2. Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, p. 30.
  3. Bollettino d'arte, Issues 127–130, article by Adele Fiadino, (2008) p. 121.
  4. Raccolta di no. 10 vedute rappresentanti la villa d'Orazio.


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