Venceslao Wehrlin (c.1746-1780)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Wenceslas Wehrlin was born in Turin into an artistic family.
• He was active at some of the most important Italian courts of the late 18th century.
• He was well received at both the Savoy and Lorraine courts.
• His father was was Giovanni Adamo Wehrlin (Nuremberg, c. 1700 - Turin, 1776), a restorer to Charles Emmanuel III (the title was "Inspector of the Galleries of His Sardinian Majesty") and founder of a generation of artists who worked continuously for the Savoy family.

• In addition to Wenceslas, we remember his sons Cristiano and Pietro Paolo Wehrlin (known from 1771 - Turin, 1810).

• Venceslao Wehrlin's output concentrated on refined portraits of high-ranking figures, immortalized in domestic settings enlivened by small pets.

• From 1776, the artist was appointed portraitist of the House of Savoy.

• In his few years of activity (certainly from 1767 to 1780), he developed a personal style in which horror vacui is combined with a lucid rationality, which leads to rendering his subjects with the passion of a carver, capable of leading the viewer to investigate every corner of the painting, created on small wooden panels.

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