Andrea Casali was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Rococo

Rococo

Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

 period.

He was born at Civitavecchia

Civitavecchia

Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is located 80 kilometers west-north-west of Rome, across the Mignone river. The harbor is formed by two piers and a breakwater, on which is a lighthouse...

, and is said to have been a pupil of Sebastiano Conca

Sebastiano Conca

Sebastiano Conca was an Italian painter.He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who acted as his assistant, he settled at Rome, where for several years he worked in chalk only, to...

. He traveled to England

England

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 in 1741, and stayed there for more than two decades, and where he was a teacher to James Durno

James Durno

James Durno was a historical painter. He studied first under Andrea Casali, and afterwards under West, and painted two pictures for Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. The early productions of this artist gave promise of great ability, which was not, however, fulfilled. He went to Italy in 1774, and...

. Some sources claim a birthdate of 1720 . He was also called the Chevalier . He remained in England till 1766, after which he lived for some years at Rome

Rome

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Works

Some of his etchings include:

• The Virgin and Child, after Raphael
  Raphael
  Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino , better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur...
  
  
• St. Edward the Martyr
• Lucretia Lamenting Her Fate
• The Princess Gunhilda or Innocence Triumphant