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Giovanni Battista Cipriani (1727-1785), Italianpainter and engraver, Pistoiese by descent, was born in Florence.

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Giovanni Battista Cipriani RA ( – 14 December ) was an Italian painter and engraver, who lived in England from He is also called Giuseppe Cipriani.

Cipriani was born in in Florence.

A Founder Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, Giovanni Battista Cipriani was an Italian-born artist who designed the interior of the Academy's first home.

Cipriani was a member of the Duke of Richmond's Academy in Whitehall and the St Martin's Lane Academy.

His first lessons were given him by an Englishman, Ignatius Heckford or Hugford, and under his second master, Antonio Domenico Gabbiani[?], he became a very clever draughtsman. He was in Rome from 1750 to 1753, where he became acquainted with Sir William Chambers, the architect, and Joseph Wilton[?], the sculptor, whom he accompanied to England in August 1755.

He had already painted two pictures for the abbey of San Michele in Pelago, Pistoia, which had brought him reputation, and on his arrival in England he was patronized by Lord Tilney, the duke of Richmond and other noblemen.

His acquaintance with Sir William Chambers no doubt helped him on, for when Chambers designed the Albany in London for Lord Holland, Cipriani painted a ceiling for him, He also painted part of a ceiling in Buckingham Palace, and a room with poetical subjects at