Niccolò Cassana (1659–1714)

• Often called Nicoletto; was an Italian painter.
• Born in Venice, Republic of Venice.
• His older brother Giovanni Agostino Cassana was also a painter.

• He trained with his father, Giovanni Francesco Cassana.

• Early on in his career he produced portraits in Venice.

• In 1681 he sent a self-portrait to Florence in a bid to become the new official court painter for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

• He worked as a copying and restoring paintings for Grandduke Ferdinand II of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

• Having painted portraits of the Medici court.

• Cassana was invited to London by Queen Anne, who sat to him for her likeness, and conferred on him many marks of favor.

• He died in London in 1714, having given way to drinking in his later years.

• One of his pupils was Fortunato Pasquetti.

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