Scipione Cignaroli

Scipione Cignaroli (1715-1766) was an Italian painter.^[1]

Life

The son of Martino Cignaroli, he received his first instruction from his father, and then went to Rome, where he became a scholar of Tempesta. He was a successful imitator of the style of his master, and of the works of Gaspard Dughet and Salvator Rosa. His pictures are chiefly at Milan and Turin.^[2]

References

1. "Cignaroli, Scipione". Union List of Artist' Names. J Paul Getty Foundation. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
2. Bryan 1886-9.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "CIGNAROLI, Scipione" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.