# PASQUETTI, Fortunato [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1690–1773 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter. A pupil of Niccolò Cassana, he distinguished himself as a portrait painter, receiving many commissions from wealthy patricians of eighteenth-century Venice. His first known work, depicting St Jerome, was until 1733 in the church of San Simeone Profeta \(now untraced\). He was praised by his contemporaries for his well-designed portraits. After a long and successful career, the artist moved to Portogruaro in 1764, where he died a few years later. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of the Nobleman Gerolamo Maria Balbi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()