Sebastiano Bombelli

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Sebastiano Bombelli (1635 - 1719) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Venice, during the Baroque period. He apprenticed in his natal town of Udine with his father, Valentino Bombelli and his godfather, Girolamo Lugaro. He is claimed by some to have studied with Guercino^[1]. He is best known for his full-length portraits of the Venetian nobility, dressed in their official regalia. A style of depiction which would be also used in the next century by Alessandro Longhi. He was a mentor to the painter Fra' Galgario (Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi).

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• Web Gallery of Art biography
• Steer, John (1970). in Thames and Hudson: A Concise History of Venetian Painting, p131. 
• Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 28.