Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1480-1548 Related Paintings of SAVOLDO, Giovanni Girolamo :. | St Anthony Abbot and St Paul | Saint Jerome | Portrait of the Artist (mk05) | Bust of a Youth sg | Tobias and the Angel sf | Related Artists: Henry Clarence Whaite British artist, 1828-1912 Benjamin Patersen painted Saint Petersburg in 1801 Luis Melendez 1716-80
He assisted his father, artist Francisco Melendez, until 1737, when he began studying with Lewis-Michel Vanloo, the court painter to Philip V of France. Although accepted (1745) into the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, he was expelled after his father denounced the academy in a dispute over a royal competition. After traveling throughout Italy, he returned to work for his father as an illustrator of choirbooks.