© Altomani & Sons. All rights reserved 2024.
mail@altomani.com
Francesco Foschi
Winter Landscape
Biography Francesco Foschi
Francesco Foschi (1716 - February 21, 1780) was an Italian painter best known for painting winter landscapes.
He was born in Ancona in the Marche region. He moved to Rome in 1729 and encountered the works of other view painters. He died in Rome.
His initial training took place in Fano in the workshop of the painter Francesco Mancini (1679 - 1758), a talented pupil of Carlo Cignani. Foschi is documented in Rome in 1744 and then again in 1764; he remained there until his death in 1780. Between 1744 and 1764, it is likely that he returned to the Marche, as suggested by the canvas depicting the «Panorama of Loreto, with the figures of Abundance and Justice and the portraits of Leo X, Sixtus V, and Benedict XIV» now preserved at the Museum of the Apostolic Palace of Loreto, probably executed on commission by the bishop of Ancona, Benedict XIV Lambertini (Lambertini held the episcopal chair between 1727 and 1731).
The work
Winter Landscape
Oil on canvas, cm 64 x 126
