Pier Leone Ghezzi

Pier Leone Ghezzi (28 June 1674 – 6 March 1755) was an Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome.

His father was secretary of the Roman Accademia di San Luca, and Pier Leone joined the Academy in 1705.

His essay painting, the Allegory of Gratitude, was donated to the institution for his admission, as was customary.

[4] His pen and gouache caricatures are much freer in emotion than his state portraiture, and were much admired.

Recent scientific discoveries include watercolors reproducing stones and marbles, which were in 1727 collected in a manuscript named "Studio di molte pietre", i.e. Collection of different stones, currently preserved at the Biblioteca Alessandrina of Rome.

Self-portrait
Caricature of composer Antonio Vivaldi by Pier Leone Ghezzi
Monk with a Carrot and a Woman with a Chamber Pot
Caricature of Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1752), British Museum