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Pensionante del Saraceni [Coinquilino del Saraceni]
( fl c. 1610–1620s). Painter of unknown nationality, active in Italy. The sobriquets ‘Pensionante’ (roomer) and ‘Coinquilino’ (fellow-tenant) were assigned by Longhi in 1943 to an anonymous painter who worked in Rome during the second and third decades of the 17th century, producing a small, but coherent group of pictures executed in a style strongly resembling that of the Venetian painter Carlo Saraceni, who was present in Rome until about 1619. The ‘Pensionante’ may have been a pupil of Saraceni, although this remains unsubstantiated. His small, high-quality paintings principally represent genre scenes and still-lifes and were undoubtedly intended for private collectors.
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