Pietro Annigoni, OMRI (7 June 1910 – 28 October 1988) was an Italian artist, portrait painter, fresco painter and medallist, best known for his painted portraits of Queen Elizabeth II. [1] His …

Pietro Annigoni completed a number of portraits of Queen Elizabeth II between 1954 and 1972. In 1955, he painted her for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and in 1969 for the National …

Pietro Annigoni was born on the 7th of June 1910 in Milan, where he attended elementary school, high school at the Ginnasio Parini, and then the Calchi-Taeggi College. In Florence he was a …

Pietro Annigoni was an Italian painter known for his deftly rendered realist portraits and landscapes. An adherent of Renaissance painting techniques, the artist co-founded the …

Pietro Annigoni (Milan, 1910 - Florence, 1988), one of the greatest artists of mid-twentieth-century Italy, belonging to the group of “modern painters of reality”, a great portraitist, was able to …

Italian painter (and occasional sculptor), the only artist of his time to become internationally famous as a society and state portraitist.

Nov 25, 2023 · Pietro Annigoni (born June 7, 1910 – died October 28, 1988) is a famous Italian artist of the twentieth century, a master of portrait painting, sculptor, frescoist and engraver. …

The Museo Pietro Annigoni inside Villa Bardini is devoted to the eclectic artist who, in Florence in the creatively thriving period between the two world wars, experimented and expressed his …

The Italian artist Pietro Annigoni was commissioned by the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery to paint a new portrait of The Queen in 1969. Fifteen years earlier, Annigoni had …

Born in 1910, Pietro Annigoni became the only painter of his lifetime to become internationally successful as a society and state portrait artist. His career took flight in 1954 when he was …