Nicolò Maria Vaccaro

Portrait of Philip V of Spain by Nicolo Vaccaro, c. 1715.

For the Italian late-Baroque painter (1640–1709), see Nicola Vaccaro.

Nicolò Maria Vaccaro (Genoa, 1659 – Madrid, 1720) was an Italian Baroque painter, specialised in portaits, who worked in Madrid as Court painter of King Philip V of Spain.

Born in Genoa, he worked in Parma at the court of Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma. As protegé of Cardinal Giulio Alberoni, he followed the Cardinal to Spain around 1711-1712. Here he became «Pictor Regius» (Court painter) and made in 1715 a painting of the King, which Alberoni sent to his college in Piacenza.
He didn't just paint portraits. The Prado museum possesses his Alegoría de la Tierra, painted for the Palacio del Buen Retiro.

Sources

• Nicolò Maria Vaccaro, Tracce per i ritratti genovesi, by Daniele Sanguineti
• Museo del Prado