Luigi Mayer | |
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 Luigi Mayer | |
| Born | (1755-03-01)1 March 1755 Italy |
| Died | 1 January 1803(1803-01-01) (aged 47) London |
| Known for | Painter |
| Movement | Orientalist |
Luigi Mayer (1755–1803) was an Italian-German artist and one of the earliest and most important late 18th-century European painters of theOttoman Empire.
Mayer was a close friend ofSir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet, a British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1776 and 1792, and the bulk of his paintings and drawings during this period were commissioned by Ainslie.[1] He travelled extensively through the Ottoman Empire between 1776 and 1794, and became well known for his sketches and paintings of panoramic landscapes of ancient sites from theBalkans to theGreek Islands, Anatolia andEgypt, particularly ancient monuments and theNile.[2]Many of the works were amassed in Ainslie's collection, which was later presented to theBritish Museum, providing a valuable insight into the Middle East of that period. His wife,Clara Barthold Mayer, worked as his assistant and produced her own paintings.
Views in Turkey in Europe and Asia (from 1801), by Sir Robert Ainslie, was a multi-volume work based on Mayer's drawings. There were plates engraved byWilliam Watts.[3][4]Thomas Milton was involved, producingaquatints of Egyptian views.[5]
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