Anton Mengs (1728-1779) A collection of paintings 4K Ultra HD

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779) was a German Bohemian painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-17th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting that replaced Rococo as the dominant painting syle. Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) in Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs , a Danish painter who eventually established himself at Dresden. His elder sister, Therese Maron was also a painter, as was their younger sister Julia. In 1741 Mengs’s father took him from Dresden to Rome. In 1749 he was appointed first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, but this did not prevent him from continuing to spend much of his time in Rome.