Background
Bacciarelli was born in Rome, Italy, on February 10, 1731. He was the son of Lorenzo Filippo Gasparo and Ortensia Girolama Bacciarelli.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 5, 00-068 Warszawa, Poland
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warsaw, Poland
University of Warsaw.
Bacciarelli was born in Rome, Italy, on February 10, 1731. He was the son of Lorenzo Filippo Gasparo and Ortensia Girolama Bacciarelli.
Marcello Bacciarelli completed his studies in Rome under the guidance of Marco Benefial.
In 1750 Bacciarelli moved to Dresden, Saxony, where he was employed by King Augustus III of Poland. While in Dresden, he met Bernardo Bellotto and worked with him for many years. Starting from 1756 he served as a portraitist of the aristocracy: during this period he got acquainted with the family of the future King Stanisław Poniatowski. In 1764 he moved to Vienna, where he stayed for two years making portraits of the large imperial family of Empress Maria Theresa. In 1766 he returned to Poland.
He was appointed by King Stanisław II Augustus in 1768 as the director of the Academy of Arts of Warsaw and also a director of the Royal Buildings and Estates. Living in Warsaw, Bacciarelli painted a series of portraits depicting nearly all Polish kings, from Bolesław I the Brave to Stanisław II Augustus who was Marcello Bacciarelli's admirer and patron. He made a portrait of Izabela Lubomirska in her wedding gown, which she commissioned after her marriage. Bacciarelli also depicted crucial scenes from the history of Poland. In 1816 he was appointed an honorary professor of the new Faculty of Arts of the Royal University of Poland (later University of Warsaw). After the sections of Poland and after Napoleon's rise to power he moved to the Duchy of Warsaw, a client state of the First French Empire and died in 1818.
The Chocim Treaty
Prussian Homage
Portrait of Stanisław August Poniatowski in Coronation Robes
King Casimir the Great
Stanislaw Augustus in a Feathered Hat
Self Portrait in Polish National Costume
Heinrich Graf Von Brühl
Union of Lublin
Jan Kazimierz
Anna Lampel
Sobieski at the Battle of Vienna
Izabella Poniatowska Branicka
Granting Privileges to the Academy of Krakow
Cincinnatus
Marie Christine
August II the Strong
Allegorical Portrait of Stanisław August Poniatowski with an Hourglas
Blue Marquise
Alcibiades Being Taught by Socrates
Allegory of Graciousness (Clementia)
Allegory of Justice (Temida)
Franciszek Salezy Potocki
Fryderyk August
Caliope
Hagar in the Desert
Jan I Olbracht
Ksawery Działyński
Old man in a brown habit
Penitent Mary Magdalene
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of Dorothea von Medem
Portrait of Feliks Paweł Turski
Marcello Bacciarelli was a member of the Academies of Fine Arts in Dresden, Vienna and Berlin.
Bacciarelli was married to Federicka Richter, a painter of miniature portraits.