Niccolò Cassana was an Italian

Italy

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 painter born in Venice

Venice

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 and active during the late-Baroque. His older brother Giovanni Agostino Cassana was also a painter.

He trained with his father, Giovanni Francesco Cassana

Giovanni Francesco Cassana

Giovanni Francesco Cassana was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. He was a pupil of the painter Strozzi. His pupils include his son Niccolò Cassana, Niccolò Bambini, and Giovanni Battista Langetti. He was known as a portrait artists. He passed some time at the Court...

, a Genoese painter, who had been taught the art of painting by Bernardo Strozzi

Bernardo Strozzi

Bernardo Strozzi was a prominent and prolific Italian Baroque painter born and active mainly in Genoa, and also active in Venice.-Biography:Strozzi was born in Genoa. He was probably not related to the other Strozzi family....

. He painted a Conspiracy of Catiline for the Gallery at Florence

Florence

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. Having painted portraits of the Florentine court, and also of some of the English nobility, Nicoletto was invited to England

England

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, and introduced to Queen Anne

Anne of Great Britain

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, who sat to him for her likeness, and conferred on him many marks of favour. He died in London

London

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 in 1714, having given way to drinking in his later years.

One of his pupils was Fortunato Pasquetti.