Domingo Antonio Velasco

Velasco's portrait of Domenico Scarlatti, made around 1739 after he received from D. João V the Cross of the Order of Santiago.

Domingo Antonio Velasco was an Italian painter. He was best known for his portrait of composer Domenico Scarlatti,^[1] which commemorates the dubbing of Domenico into the Order of Santiago on 21 April 1738 by King John V of Portugal.^[2]

References

1. ^ Domingo Antonio Velasco Portrait of Domenico Scarlatti (1686-1757) at the 1st Art Gallery
2. ^ Robert Lewis, Marshall (2003). Eighteenth-century keyboard music. Routledge. pp. 161. ISBN 0415966426. http://books.google.com/books?id=OIss02xj4wYC&pg=PA161&dq=domingo+antonio+velasco&hl=en&ei=34bKTvqYBsfBtAaxrd2hBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=3&ved=0CEAQuwUwAg#v=onepage&q=domingo%20antonio%20velasco&f=false. 

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