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Giovanni Battista ("Titta") Lusieri (1754–1821)

• Was an Italian landscape painter from Naples.
• He was court painter to Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies before working for Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.
• According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD), Lusieri travelled in Naples, Greece, and Turkey.
• He was employed by Lord Elgin, to make drawings of the Acropolis.
• He is known today for removing and shipping the Elgin Marbles to London.
• He had originally been known for the accurate landscapes and studies of buildings in Italy and Sicily that he often sold to young gentlemen on their Grand Tour, especially after he moved to Naples in 1782 and concentrated on views of Mount Vesuvius.
• From 1799 he spent his time working for Lord Elgin in Greece, and less time painting.
• Lusieri's body of work was seriously reduced when many of his paintings were lost in a shipwreck in 1828.
• A considerable number of his extant paintings are in the possession of the Elgin family.