Angelica Le Gru Perotti
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Angelica Le Gru Perotti was an Italian
Italy
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 woman painter of the Rococo
Rococo
Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

, active at first in Northern Italy and Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

. She was born to a family of painters including her father, the portraitist Le Gru, and three brothers. She is best known for pastel portraits she completed on a trip to London, similar to the voyages of Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera
Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures...

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Sources

  • Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli xiv e xv e della scuola pittorica. By Cesare Bernasconi

Published 1864 (Google books).
Original from Oxford University
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