Giovanni Battista Cipriani R.A. Watercolour Drawing The Education Of Achilles Circa.1776
Giovanni Battista Cipriani R.A. Watercolour Drawing The Education Of Achilles Circa.1776
Giovanni Battista Cipriani R.A. Watercolour Drawing The Education Of Achilles Circa.1776
Giovanni Battista Cipriani R.A. Watercolour Drawing The Education Of Achilles Circa.1776
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani R.A. Watercolour Drawing The Education Of Achilles Circa.1776

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Giovanni Battista Cipriani R.A. 1727-1785. Anglo-Italian School 18th.Century. Pen ink and watercolour drawing on laid paper. The Education Of Achilles. Preparatory study for the painting of Chiron instructing Achilles with the bow, painted for an ante-room at Lansdowne House. Another version by the same hand is in the Fitzwilliam Museum Collection (No.3303). 19.5 by 21.5 cms. 

Born at Florence, Cipriani was bought to London in 1755 by the architect Sir William Chambers and the sculptor Joseph Wilton who had met him in Rome. He was employed in the decoration of many public and private houses and in some cases designed the architectural details such as the plasterwork, wall decoration, woodwork and stonecarving. Examples of his work are at Somerset House, where he worked for Chambers and in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a series of paintings originally executed for Robert Adam's Lansdowne House, London, for which this example is a preparatory drawing.

He was a foundation member of the Royal Academy designing it's Diploma. Ellis Waterhouse describes him as "One of the greatest backroom figures of the Neoclassic style in England."

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