Editing Francesco Zuccarelli (section)

==Venetian interlude (1762&ndash;1764)==
[[File:The Portraits of the Academicians of the Royal Academy, 1771-72, oil on canvas, The Royal Collection by Johan Zoffany.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.4|''[[The Academicians of the Royal Academy]]'', by [[John Zoffany]], 1771&ndash;72. Francesco Zuccarelli is standing and wearing red. He is given prominence as an artist favoured by the king.]]
Zuccarelli arrived in Venice in September 1762, and he became a member of the Venetian Academy in 1763. There is only one known painting from this interval, the rather academic ''St. John the Baptist'', a composition required by the academy after gaining admittance.{{sfn|Spadotto|2007|p=40}} Zuccarelli was induced to journey back to London in 1764 by his friend Algarotti's bequest of a cameo and group of drawings made to [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|Lord Chatham]].{{sfn|Levey|1959a|p=11}}