Francesco Casanova
(1727–1803) Venetian painter (1727-1803)
Francesco Casanova (1727–1803) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Francesco Casanova belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.
Francesco Casanova was born in London and died in Mödling. Francesco Casanova worked in Venice, Florence, Paris, and Dresden. The students included Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, Franz Xaver Lampi, Philip James de Loutherbourg, and Jean-Frédéric Schall.
The best-known works include ‘Cavalry Engagement’, ‘A Battle’, and ‘Cuirassier Galopping’. The catalogue has 22 works by Francesco Casanova with free images. The dated works span the years 1750–1800. Works by Francesco Casanova are held by several collections, among them Department of Paintings of the Louvre, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Łazienkipalatset, and Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Françoise Duparc, Antonio Zucchi, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, François-Hubert Drouais, and Giovanni Battista Cipriani.