self-Portrait (nn03) c 1774 Oil on canvas 102 x 77 cm 40 1/4 x 30 1/4 in
Hermitage Museum St Petersburg
Anton Raphael Mengs Maria Luisa of Parma Painting ID:: 31356 new4/Anton Raphael Mengs-435575.jpg
Maria Luisa of Parma nn07
1765
oil on canvas; 48??38 cm?
Prado, Madrid, Spain
Anton Raphael Mengs Allegory of History Painting ID:: 33834 new9/Anton Raphael Mengs-677348.jpg
Allegory of History mk86
c.1772/73
Fresco
420x260cm
Rome,Vatican,Biblioteca Vaticana,Sala dei Papiri
Anton Raphael Mengs Self-Portrait Painting ID:: 38544 new12/Anton Raphael Mengs-364769.jpg
Self-Portrait mk138
c.1773/74
Oil on wood
90.5x74.5cm
Anton Raphael Mengs St Foseph-s dream Painting ID:: 39719 new12/Anton Raphael Mengs-853875.jpg
St Foseph-s dream mk150
c.1773/4
Oak
114x86cm
Anton Raphael Mengs Self-Portrait Painting ID:: 40599 new16/Anton Raphael Mengs-578752.jpg
Self-Portrait mk156
c.1775
Oil on panel
97x72.6cm
Anton Raphael Mengs The Holy Family Painting ID:: 62818 new21/Anton Raphael Mengs-778798.jpg
The Holy Family 1769 Oil on canvas, 112 x 91 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest The artist used a single colour, gray, and used the various shades of this colour to create a total pictorial illusion. Artist: MENGS, Anton Raphael Title: The Holy Family Date: 1751-1800 German , painting : religious
Anton Raphael Mengs maria luisa of parmathe princess of asturias Painting ID:: 64324 new22/Anton Raphael Mengs-553555.jpg
maria luisa of parmathe princess of asturias 1765
paris. louvre
Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Isabel Parreno Arce Ruiz de Alarcon y Valdes, Marchioness of Llano Painting ID:: 76044 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-767964.jpg
Portrait of Isabel Parreno Arce Ruiz de Alarcon y Valdes, Marchioness of Llano 1770-1775
Oil on canvas
250 ?? 148 cm (98.4 ?? 58.3 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria Queen consort of Naples and Sicily Painting ID:: 76196 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-444949.jpg
Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria Queen consort of Naples and Sicily 1772-73
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Anton Raphael Mengs Self-portrait Painting ID:: 76219 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-788344.jpg
Self-portrait ca. 1778(1778)
Oil on wood
56.5 ?? 43 cm (22.2 ?? 16.9 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Maria Luisa von Parma Prinzessin von Asturien Painting ID:: 76549 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-768389.jpg
Maria Luisa von Parma Prinzessin von Asturien ca. 1765(1765)
Oil on canvas
152 ?? 110 cm (59.8 ?? 43.3 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Self-portrait Painting ID:: 76685 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-765379.jpg
Self-portrait after 1777(1777)
Oil on canvas
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Anton Raphael Mengs Self-portrait Painting ID:: 76784 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-334954.jpg
Self-portrait ca. 1775(1775)
Oil on canvas
102 ?? 77 cm (40.2 ?? 30.3 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Charles III of Spain Painting ID:: 77074 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-567367.jpg
Portrait of Charles III of Spain 1761
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Anton Raphael Mengs Self-portrait Painting ID:: 77103 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-966667.jpg
Self-portrait 1773(1773)
Oil on wood
98 ?? 73 cm (38.6 ?? 28.7 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Domenico Annibali (1705-1779), Italian singer Painting ID:: 77800 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-784387.jpg
Portrait of Domenico Annibali (1705-1779), Italian singer 1750(1750)
Oil on canvas
95 cm (37.4 in). Height: 125 cm (49.2 in).
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Anton Raphael Mengs Retrato de la Marquesa de Llano Painting ID:: 77969 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-886963.jpg
Retrato de la Marquesa de Llano Date 1770-1775
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 250 x 148 cm (98.4 x 58.3 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria Painting ID:: 78009 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-745457.jpg
Portrait of Maria Carolina of Austria Date 1772-73
Medium Oil
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Anton Raphael Mengs Portrait du cardinal Archinto Painting ID:: 78078 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-933889.jpg
Portrait du cardinal Archinto 1756(1756)
Oil on canvas
155 x 114 cm (61 x 44.9 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Self-portrait Painting ID:: 78105 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-679938.jpg
Self-portrait 1774(1774)
Oil on wood
73.5 x 56.2 cm (28.9 x 22.1 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs portrait Painting ID:: 78158 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-358696.jpg
portrait Date ca. 1778(1778)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 56.5 x 43 cm (22.2 x 16.9 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Maria Luisa von Parma Painting ID:: 78399 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-395853.jpg
Maria Luisa von Parma ca. 1765(1765)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 152 x 110 cm (59.8 x 43.3 in)
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Anton Raphael Mengs Retrato de la Marquesa de Llano Painting ID:: 78432 new24/Anton Raphael Mengs-984935.jpg
Retrato de la Marquesa de Llano 1770-1775
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 250 x 148 cm (98.4 x 58.3 in)
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1728-1779
Dutch
Anton Raphael Mengs Gallery
Mengs was born in 1728 at Usti nad Labem (German: Aussig) in Bohemia on 12 March 1728; he died in Rome 29 June 1779. His father, Ismael Mengs, a Danish painter, established himself finally at Dresden, whence in 1741 he took his son to Rome.
In Rome, his fresco painting of Parnassus at Villa Albani gained him a reputation as a master painter. The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Quazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting, nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid. There Mengs produced some of his best work, and specially the ceiling of the banqueting-hall of the Royal Palace of Madrid, the subject of which was the Triumph of Trajan and the Temple of Glory. Among his pupils there was Agust??n Esteve. After the completion of this work in 1777, Mengs returned to Rome, and there he died, two years later, in poor circumstances, leaving twenty children, seven of whom were pensioned by the king of Spain. His portraits and autoportraits recall an attention to detail and insight, often lost from the grand manner paintings.
Besides numerous paintings in the Madrid gallery, the Ascension and St Joseph at Dresden, Perseus and Andromeda at Saint Petersburg, and the ceiling of the Villa Albani must be mentioned among his chief works. In 1911, Henry George Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland, possessed a Holy Family, and the colleges of All Souls and Magdalen, at Oxford, possessed altar-pieces by Mengs's hand.
In his writings, in Spanish, Italian and German, Mengs has put forth his eclectic theory of art, which treats of perfection as attainable by a well-schemed combination of diverse excellences Greek design, with the expression of Raphael, the chiaroscuro of Correggio, and the colour of Titian. He would have fancied himself the first neoclassicist, while in fact he may be the last flicker of Baroque art. Or in the words of Wittkower, In the last analysis, he is as much an end as a beginning.
His intimacy with Johann Joachim Winckelmann, who constantly wrote at his dictation, has enhanced his historical importance, for he formed no scholars, and the critic must now concur in Goethe's judgment of Mengs in Winckelmann und sein Jahrhundert; he must deplore that so much learning should have been allied to a total want of initiative and poverty of invention, and embodied with a strained and artificial mannerism.
Mengs was famous for his rivalry with the contemporary Italian painter Pompeo Batoni.