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(2) Charles-Joseph [Carlo Giuseppe] Flipart
(b Paris, 9 Jan 1721; d Madrid, 2 Aug 1797). Engraver, painter and designer, brother of (1) Jean-Jacques Flipart. His father supervised his early artistic training. While in Paris, he met the Venetian painter Jacopo Amigoni, who may have encouraged him to go to Italy, as he moved there when still very young. He worked during the 1740s in the Venetian studio of the printmaker Joseph Wagner (1706–80), where he became acquainted with the splendid colouring and Baroque style of earlier and contemporary schools of painting. He also assimilated the descriptive and anecdotal richness of Pietro Longhi’s style, combining it with the refinement of the French fête galante. He collaborated with Amigoni and probably followed him to Spain in 1747 to be his assistant at the Madrid court. When Amigoni died in 1752, Flipart completed the two allegorical tondi painted in Rococo style by the older artist for the Comedor de Gala in the Palacio de Aranjuez (in situ). At the same time he obtained commissions from the court circle, painting the Surrender of Seville to St Ferdinand (c. 1756) for the convent of the Visitación (now S Bárbara; in situ) and the Immaculate Conception with SS Peter and Paul (c. 1751; untraced) for the Hospital de los Italianos, both in Madrid. Ferdinand VI ordered two of his paintings, St Ferdinand III and St Francis of Paola (both c. 1752–8), to be sent to the Carmelite convent in Alba de Tormes (in situ).
Part of the Flipart family
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