Nicola Maria Rossi

At the age of 15 years, he had begun studying a classic education, but after a fireworks injury damaged one eye, he became a pupil of Francesco Solimena in 1706.

[1] Rossi painted an altarpiece of the Immaculate Conception with Saints and Bishops for the church of the Cappuccinelle sopra Ponte Corbo.

Rossi was called to Vienna, to paint a Hall for the Marquis of Refrano, a counselor for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI.

He painted allegoric and mythologic panels, as well as large canvases depicting the viceroys functions in various public ceremonies, to be sent to his palace (Palais Harrach) in Vienna.

He painted for the church of San Lorenzo, two canvases: one of the Virgin with Angels and the instruments of Passion and the other Two Saints of the Order of Servites.