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Antonio Bellucci (19 February 1654 – 29 August 1726) was an Italian soldier who became a painter of the Rococo period and was best known for his work in England, Germany, and Austria. He was one of the many Venetian-trained artists of his time, including Sebastiano Ricci, Tiepolo, Jacopo Amigoni, and others, who sought commissions north of Italy, providing patrons with the then-popular Italianate grand-manner frescoes for private palaces.
Among his pupils were Antonio Balestra and perhaps Jacopo Amigoni.
In 1692, he completed four altarpieces depicting various saints for the church of Klosterneuburg. From 1695 to 1700 and from 1702 to c. 1704, he lived in Vienna. He painted the Triumph of Hercules and other allegorical ceilings at the Palais Liechtenstein for Charles VI.
From 1716 to 1722, Bellucci worked in England, where he fulfilled several commissions for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, including ceilings at Cannons, the duke's country seat near London;The house no longer exists, but paintings from the demolished chapel at Cannon were transferred to the church at Witley Court, Worcestershire. at the neighbouring St Lawrence, Whitchurch the paintings of the Nativity and the Descent from the Cross, which are seen on either side of the altar, and the Transfiguration, which is above the Duke’s pew, are attributed to him. Website of Church There is an almost Romanticism self-portrait of Belluci, shirt open, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The reproduction here does not legibly show that on his breast is written the word 'pictor' (painter), perhaps indicating that to be an artist was his heart's desire. He returned to his native country late in life, and died in Soligo.
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