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(b Rome, June 11, 1749; d Rome, Nov 25, 1819). Italian sculptor, silversmith and bronze-founder. He quickly became a successor to his teacher Luigi Valadier, a leading Roman silversmith who also produced copies after the Antique, and responded with skill and energy to the taste of collectors for faithful replicas of celebrated statues, both ancient and modern, and antiquarian ornaments. In 1781 Righetti received his first known large-scale commission, for 12 full-sized lead casts of famous statues for the English banker Henry Hope at his country house at Welgelegen, near Haarlem (7 remain in situ). Painted white to resemble marble, the statues chosen were chiefly Classical works such as the Venus de’ Medici and Apollino (both Florence, Uffizi) but also included certain more recent statues, such as Giambologna’s Mercury (version, Florence, Bargello) and François Du Quesnoy’s St Susanna (Rome, S Maria di Loreto). In 1786 Righetti provided Catherine II, Empress of Russia, with a marble Parnassus with bronze figures of ...