Anton von Maron

Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1768.

Anton von Maron (January 8, 1733 March 3, 1808) was an Austrian painter, active in Rome.

Von Maron was born in Vienna, but moved at a young age to Rome. There, he studied under Anton Raphael Mengs, and became an accomplished portrait painter. He married a sister of Mengs, Therese Maron, who was a painter in her own right. He lived the rest of his life in Rome, and died there in 1808.

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