Agostino Tofanelli (c. 1768-1834) 

• Was an Italian painter, draughtsman and engraver.
• Son of the engraver Andrea, he studied with his father and brother Stefano.
• In 1781 he settled in Rome, where he successfully attended courses at the Academy of the Nude.
• In 1807 he was appointed custodian of the Capitoline Museum, a position he held until his death.
• His first commissions as a painter were in Rome in Palazzo Spada (1808) and in the renovation of the Quirinal apartments (Salon de Musique dell'imperatrice, 1812).
• In 1813 he was appointed a member of the Accademia di San Luca to which he donated Apollo and Marsyas, now preserved together with the Self-Portrait (c. 1820).
• Other works are preserved in the church of San Bonaventura dei Lucchesi (portraits of his brother Stefano Tofanelli, c. 1813 and his son Raffaele Tofanelli, c. 1820; The Archangel Raphael, 1822).
• In Lucca, where he had already worked for Elisa Baciocchi, he also had commissions from Maria Luisa of Bourbon, for family portraits and works with a biblical theme.

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