"Giuseppe Marchesi (1699–1771) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was also known as il Sansone for his herculean build. ...
He was first a pupil of the painter Aureliano Milani and then of Marcantonio Franceschini.
Giuseppe Marchesi was born in Bologna on 19 July 1699.
His first teacher was the bolognese painter Aureliano Milani until 1719, when Milani left Bologna for Rome. So, Marchesi entered the workshop of Marcantonio Franceschini, at the time the best exponent of the classicist style in Bologna, and maybe in Europe, at least until the affirmation of Donato Creti." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.09.2020)
