Mengs
Anton Raphael Mengs
1728-1779
Anton Raphael Mengs was born in Aussig (Bohemia) in 1728; he died in Rome in 1779. The leading German painter in the eighteenth century and a major figure in European art, Mengs was the son of a miniature painter, his first teacher. He went with his father to Rome at the age of twelve, where he copied Raphael and was trained by Italian artists. In 1744 father and son returned to Dresden, where the latter made a reputation as a brilliant portraitist and was appointed court painter at the age of eighteen. He began a second Roman residence in 1746, converted to Catholicism and married an Italian, returning to Dresden in 1749. For the next decade much of his time was spent in Italy, where he became a close friend of Winckelmann who drew him toward a more classical style. He was active in Naples as well as Rome. In 1762 he was the leading painter at the Spanish court. Mengs published many theoretical writings toward the end of his life when he was a figure of international fame and one of the founders of the Neo-classical style.
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