Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs
Self-Portrait, c. 1775, Uffizi, Florence
Born(1728-03-12)12 March 1728
Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia, Habsburg Empire
Died29 June 1779(1779-06-29) (aged 51)
Rome, Papal States
NationalityGerman
OccupationPainter
MovementNeoclassical
Spouse(s)Margarita Guazzi
(m. 1748)
ChildrenAnna Maria Mengs
RelativesTherese Mengs (sister)
Julia Charlotte Mengs (sister)

Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728[1] – 29 June 1779) was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replaced Rococo as the dominant painting style in Europe.

  1. ^ "Anton Raphael Mengs (Bohemian painter)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 March 2012.