PASQUETTI, Fortunato
(b. ~1690 Venezia, d. 1773 Portogruaro)
Italian painter. A pupil of Niccolò Cassana, he distinguished himself as a portrait painter, receiving many commissions from wealthy patricians of eighteenth-century Venice. His first known work, depicting St Jerome, was until 1733 in the church of San Simeone Profeta (now untraced). He was praised by his contemporaries for his well-designed portraits.
After a long and successful career, the artist moved to Portogruaro in 1764, where he died a few years later.
