Giuseppe Troni

Giuseppe Troni
Self-Portrait
Nationality	Italian, Portuguese,
Patron(s)	Maria I of Portugal John VI of Portugal

Giuseppe Troni (Portuguese: José Troni; Turin, 1739 – Lisbon, 1810) was an Italian court painter. He was initially a pupil of his father, Alessandro Trono, but completed his studies in Rome. He was portrait painter to the court of Naples, and later to the court in Turin.

Portuguese court

In 1785, he moved to Lisbon. In Lisbon, he would become famous once he became a court painter to the House of Braganza. He would paint there many famous portraits of the kings and princes of Portugal, as well as the Portuguese nobility.

Gallery

• 
  Maria I of Portugal
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  Maria Anna of Austria
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  John VI of Portugal
• 
  Manuel de Figueiredo; 1785
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  Infanta Carlota Joaquina of Spain; 1787

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 586.