Giuseppe Canale was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and engraver. He was born in Rome

Rome

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. He was instructed in engraving by Jacob Frey, and also frequented the school of the Cavalière Marco Benefial

Marco Benefial

Marco Benefial was an Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for his repudiation of 18th century decorative Rococo styles pre-eminent in the Rome dominated by Carlo Maratta pupils....

. In 1751 he was invited to Dresden

Dresden

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 to assist in engraving plates for the pictures in their Gallery, and was appointed engraver to the Court. He completed the following prints:

• Portrait of Maria Mattia Perini after Benefial
  Marco Benefial
  Marco Benefial was an Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for his repudiation of 18th century decorative Rococo styles pre-eminent in the Rome dominated by Carlo Maratta pupils....
  
  
• Portrait of Maria Antonia, Electress Dowager of Saxony
  Saxony
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   after a self-portrait drawing
• Portrait of Archbishop Bonaventura Barberini
  Barberini
  The Barberini are a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII...
  
  
• Portrait of Maria Josephina, Queen of Poland
• Portrait of Prince Xavier of Saxony
• Sepulchral Monument of Cardinal Spinola
• Philosopher; after Jusepe Ribera
• The Glory after Domenichino
• Sibyl after Angelica Kauffmann
  Angelica Kauffmann
  Maria Anna Angelika/Angelica Katharina Kauffman was a Swiss-Austrian Neoclassical painter. Kauffman is the preferred spelling of her name; it is the form she herself used most in signing her correspondence, documents and paintings.- Early years :She was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland,...
  
  
• Paris & Oenone after Van Loo
• Adam and Eve driven from Paradise after Albani
  Francesco Albani
  Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early years in Bologna:Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he...
  
  
• Christ & St. John after Adrian Van der Werf
• Christ appearing to St. Thomas after Mattia Preti finished by Jacque Firmin Beauvarlet
• Turkish Woman and Spring after Dietrich.