Portrait of Antonio Canova

Portrait of Antonio Canova is an 1820 portrait painting by the British artist John Jackson depicting the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova.

[1] Jackson begun the work while visiting Rome in 1819 when Canova sat for him.

It is in now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art.

[2] An engraving based on Jackson's work was produced in 1822 and is now in the British Museum.

[3] Another British artist Thomas Lawrence painted Canova around the same time, a version of which twenty copies exist.