Giuseppe Pierre Joseph Grisoni (bapt. October 24, 1699 – 1769), also known as Grifoni or Grison, was an Italian

Italy

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 painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 and sculptor

Sculpture

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, noted for his landscapes and historical tableaux.

Born in Mons

Mons

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, he studied in Florence

Florence

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

 under Tommaso Redi

Tommaso Redi (painter)

Tommaso Redi was an Italian painter, who was active during the late-Baroque in his native Florence.He initially apprenticed with the Florentine painter Anton Domenico Gabbiani , and then moved to Rome to work in the Medici Academy in that city, which employed Carlo Maratti and Ciro Ferri as teachers...

, abandoning his Flemish influences for the Italian tradition. In 1715 he travelled to London

London

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 with John Talman

John Talman

John Talman was a British antiquary and art collector. He was the eldest son of William Talman and his wife Hannah. From 1709 to 1717 he toured in Italy, collecting antiquities, becoming friends with the antiquarian pope Clement IX and enjoying the freedom to practice his Catholicism...

 and tried to establish himself as a portrait

Portrait

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 painter. He did not achieve enough success to stay, however, and returned to Florence in 1728 to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts

Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze

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. In 1740, he briefly relocated to Pisa

Pisa

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 before settling in Rome

Rome

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 where he died.

One of his pupils was William Hoare

William Hoare

William Hoare of Bath RA was an English painter and printmaker, co-founder of the Royal Academy noted for his pastels....

 (1707-1792)

Works

• Family of William Talman
  William Talman (architect)
  William Talman was an English architect and landscape designer. A pupil of Sir Christopher Wren, in 1678 he and Thomas Apprice gained the office of King's Waiter in the Port of London...
  
   (National Portrait Gallery)
• Self-portrait (Uffizi
  Uffizi
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  )
• Death of St Romuald (Uffizi)
• Statue of St Joseph (Florence, Church of Santissima Anunziata)

Reference list

• Gallery of works.