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(2) Alessandro Longhi
(b Venice, 1733; d Venice, Nov 1813). Painter, engraver and writer, son of (1) Pietro Longhi. He must have received his first artistic training from his father, although the only evidence of this is the similarity of their styles. He was apprenticed to Giuseppe Nogari, one of the better Venetian portrait painters of the first half of the eighteenth century, and his earliest works are bust-length, mostly life-size portraits in Nogari’s style. He first exhibited in 1757 and by 1758 must have been considered a reasonably established artist, for by the end of that year he had painted two life-size group portraits of the Pisani family. One of these—the Family of the Procurator Luigi Pisani (Venice, Bentivoglio d’Aragona priv. col.)—survives. It includes a number of allegorical figures and, despite a certain facility in the handling of the sitters’ clothes, is reminiscent of a work by Pietro Longhi, only enlarged to life size.
Part of the Longhi (iii) family
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