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Pompeo Batoni was the leading exponent of Roman classicism during the second half of the eighteenth century along with Anton Raphael Mengs. Following initial training in his native Lucca, Batoni studied in Rome, immersed an atmosphere of classicism and rigorous academicism. There he was especially appreciated as a portrait painter, for works such as Francis Basset, 1778.The present work, like Meng
