CLAUDIO FRANCESCO BEAUMONT (attr. A)

(Turin, 1694 - 1766) Sketch depicting Apollo and Marsyas Oil on canvas, 41,5X56 cm Claudio Francesco Beaumont carried out his first training in the Savoy capital, inspired by the masters of the previous generation, especially Daniel Seiter and Bartolomeo Guidobono. Between 1716 and 1719, thanks to the benevolence of Queen Anne of Orleans, wife of Vittorio Amedeo II, the artist had the opportunity to undertake a profitable study trip to Bologna and Rome, the fruits of which would allow him to meet the prestigious orders of the royal family. For the Queen's Villa he painted The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter (now lost), The Triumph of David and The Chariot of Apollo and Aurora (cf. Mattiello 2011, pp. 33-44). In 1723 Beaumont returned to Rome, where he attended Francesco Trevisani's workshop, the Academy of France and the Academy of St. Luke's, achieving an astonishing professional maturity, and in 1731, recalled to his homeland by the new sovereign Charles Emmanuel III, he was appointed court painter, director of the Tapestry Factory (1737) and the School of Drawing (1738). His best undertakings date back to these years, when he was engaged in decorating the Gallery of Venaria Reale designed by Juvarra and the Cabinets in the Winter Apartment.