Benigno Bossi

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Benigno Bossi (1727- c. 1800) was an Italian engraver.

He was born at Porto d'Arcisato near Milan. He was intended to have studied painting under Pompeo Batoni, but that artist's death prevented it, and he was advised by Anton Raphael Mengs and Dietrich to apply himself to engraving. He stayed for a time in Nuremberg and Dresden, but during the Seven Years War he had to leave Saxony, and went in 1760 to Parma where he found patronage by the duke. He died in Parma.

He engraved the following prints:

1. Self-portrait
2. A Presentation in the Temple (1755).
3. Forty small etchings of Heads, and other subjects
4. A set of Vases, and a Masquerade; after Pellot.
5. Four of Trophies (1771).
6. Four of the Attributes of the Seasons (1770).
7. Two of Children.
8. Allegorical figures representing the Towns in Piedmont.
9. A set of twenty-nine plates after the drawings of Parmigianino

[edit] References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, pages 162-163.