# Portrait of Paul III with a Councilor [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CONTE, Jacopino del]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on panel, 120 x 102 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Paul III with a Councilor c. 1537 Oil on panel, 120 x 102 cm Basilica di Santa Francesca Romana, Roma Jacopino del Conte was a pupil of Andrea del Sarto and worked independently on a number of devotional works after his master's death in 1530. By 1538 he had settled in Rome and was a member of the Accademia di San Luca. While continuing to paint religious subjects, notably a fresco cycle for the decoration of the oratory of San Giovanni Decollato, he also turned to portraiture, eventually becoming one of Rome's leading portrait painters. According to his biographer, the painter Giovanni Baglione, he painted all the popes of his time, as well as cardinals, Roman princes, ambassadors and nobility. ## Related artworks - [Frescoes on the entrance wall]() - [Frescoes on the entrance wall]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Gentleman]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of Bindo Altoviti]() - [Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Gaddi]() - [Saint Catherine of Alexandria]() - [The Annunciation to Zachariah]() - [View of the oratory]() - [Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth and the Infant Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()