Francesco Renaldi (1755–1800) 

• Was an English painter.
• Renaldi entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in October 1776, aged twenty-one.

• For two years after 1781, Renaldi traveled in Italy, initially with the Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones.

• Renaldi was active as a painter in India from 1786 to 1796.

• Works painted by Renaldi in India include Muslim Lady Reclining (1789), and a portrait of the British East India Company's Paymaster General Charles Cockerell and his Wife, Maria Tryphena, and her Sister, Charlotte Blunt (1789). 

• After his return from India, Renaldi exhibited a conversation piece group portrait of Thomas Jones and his family at the Royal Academy in 1798 (now in the collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales).

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