Background
Cipriani was born in 1727, in Pistoia, Italy. His family was originally from Pistoia.
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1776
Cipriani was born in 1727, in Pistoia, Italy. His family was originally from Pistoia.
He first studied with Ignatius Hugford, a Florentine artist of English descent, and then under Anton Domenico Gabbiani. He spent the years 1750–53 in Rome, where he became acquainted with the architect, Sir William Chambers, and the sculptor, Joseph Wilton whom he accompanied to England in August 1755.
His first lessons were given him by an Englishman, Ignatius Heckford or Hugford, and under his second master, Antonio Domenico Gabbiani, he became a very clever draughtsman.
He was in Rome from 1750 to 1753, where he became acquainted with Sir William Chambers, the architect, and Joseph Wilton, the sculptor, whom he accompanied to England in August 1755.
He had already painted two pictures for the abbey of San Michele in Pelago, Pistoia, which had brought him reputation, and on his arrival in England he was patronized by Lord Tilney, the duke of Richmond and other noblemen.
He also painted part of a ceiling in Buckingham Palace, and a room with poetical subjects at Standlynch in Wiltshire.
These designs include the five masks forming the keystones to the arches on the courtyard side of the vestibule, and the two above the doors leading into the wings of the north block, all of which are believed to have been carved by Nollekens.
The grotesque groups flanking the main doorways on three sides of the quadrangle and the central doorway on the terrace appear also to have been designed by Cipriani.
four compartments in the coves, representing Allegory, Fable, Nature and History, were Cipriani's.
In recognition of his services in this respect the members presented him in 1769 with a silver cup with a commemorative inscription.
He was much employed by the publishers, for whom he made drawings in pen and ink, sometimes coloured.
Drawings by him are in both the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum.
His best autograph engravings are " The Death of Cleopatra, " after Benvenuto Cellini; "The Descent of the Holy Ghost, " after Gabbiani; and portraits for Hollis's memoirs, 1780.
He painted allegorical designs for George III's state coach-which is still in use-in 1782, and repaired Verrio's paintings at Windsor and Rubens's ceiling in the Banqueting House at Whitehall.
Some of his most pleasing work was that which, directly or indirectly, he executed for the decoration of furniture.
Sometimes these designs were inlaid in marqueterie, but most frequently they were painted upon the satin-wood by other hands with delightful effect, since in the whole range of English furniture there is nothing more enchanting than really good finished satin-wood pieces.
There can be little doubt that some of the beautiful furniture designed by the Adams was actually painted by Cipriani himself.
He also occasionally designed handles for drawers and doors.
His paintings still remain at Somerset House, together with the emblematic painted ceiling, also his work, of what was once the library of the Royal Society.
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1776He had married an English lady, by whom he had two sons.