Natale Schiavoni (1777 - 1858) was active/lived in Italy....
We describe here the possible discovery of a portrait of Galileo Galilei in his youth.Natale Schiavoni
Italian painter
Natale Schiavoni (25 April 1777 – 15 April 1858) was an Italian painter and engraver, specializing in history and portraits. Many of his paintings depict seductive nubile women.
Biography
Schiavoni was born in Chioggia, near Venice, and was claimed by Frederick Mason Perkins to be a distant descendant of Andrea Schiavone, the Renaissance painter. In Venice, he trained with Francesco Maggiotto and later came under the influence of the Neoclassicism.
He was taught by a professor named Natale Schiavoni (1777–1858) – an artist whose name rarely comes up today, but who was a true star of.
He was peripatetic, traveling in 1800 to Trieste, and in 1810 to Milan, where he painted Eugène de Beauharnais and the royal family. In Milan, he was able to frequent the studios of Appiani, Longhi, and Sabatelli.[1] In 1816, Schiavoni was invited by the Austrian emperor to Vienna, to become the official portraitist for the court.
From there, he returned to Venice in 1821, where he became professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He resided in the Palazzo Giustinian on the Grand Canal