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CASSANA, NICCOLO (1659—1914)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASSANA, NICCOLO (1659—1914) , often called NICOLETTO, See also:Italian painter, was See also:born at See also:Venice, and became a See also:disciple of his See also:father, Giovanni See also:Francesco Cassana, a Genoese, who had been taught the See also:art of See also:painting by Bernardino See also:Strozzi (" it Prete Genovese "). Having painted portraits of the Florentine See also:court, and also of some of the See also:English See also:nobility, Nicoletto was invited to See also:England, and introduced to See also:Queen See also:Anne, who sat to him for her likeness, and conferred on him many marks of favour. He died in See also:London in 1714, having given way to drinking in his later years. See also:Cassano. was a See also:man of the most vehement See also:temper, and would wallow on the ground if provoked with his See also:work. One of his See also:principal paintings is the " See also:Conspiracy of See also:Catiline," now in See also:Florence.

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