Francesco Renaldi
Francesco Renaldi was an English-born painter of Italian parentage.
Renaldi entered the Royal Academy Schools in London in October 1776, aged twenty-one. For two years after 1781, Renaldi traveled in Italy, initially with the Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones. Renaldi was active as a painter in India from 1786 to 1796. Works painted by Renaldi in India include Muslim Lady Reclining, inscribed as being painted at "Dacca" , and a portrait of the British East India Company's Paymaster General Charles Cockerell and his Wife, Maria Tryphena, and her Sister, Charlotte Blunt .
After his return from India, Renaldi exhibited a conversation piece group portrait of Thomas Jones and his family at the Royal Academy in 1798.Additional bibliography
Mildred Archer, India and British Portraiture, 1770-1825
William Foster, 'British artists in India, 1760-1820' The Volume of the Walpole Society 19 1
