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Antonio Cesare Poggi
Italian, active in Britain, 1744 - 1836
Italian portrait and history painter and fan painter; later print and drawing dealer and print publisher. Came to England with General Paoli in 1769. Exh. RA 1776. Member of Reynolds circle, and Reynolds wrote an puff for his exhibition of fan paintings in 1780. Publishing in London from 1780, which probably also time that he took up dealing in old master drawings.
Sold up in London in 1801 and moved to Paris, though his family seems to have stayed in London. Supplied many drawings to Prince Esterhazy in 1810 (now in Budapest). A Paris sale after his death is recorded in 1836; many prints published by him record his name as 'De Poggi'; exhibited Royal Academy 1776 from Rome and from 4 Orchard Street, Portman Square 1781.
Also known as:
Poggi, Antonio Cesare; De Poggi, Antonio Cesare
Addresses:
4 Orchard Street Portman Square (1782) 7 St George's Row, Hyde Park (1783-1785, c.1787-91) 91 New Bond Street, London (1796-1800)
Bibliography:
Zsuzsanna Gonda, in Festschrift for Klara Garas, 1999, on Poggi and Trumbull.
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