Eleonora Monti

Eleonora Monti
Monti by Luigi Crespi, 1769
Born20 July 1727
Diedc. 1765 (aged c. 38)
Parent(s)Francesco Monti
Teresa Marchioni

Eleonora Monti (20 July 1727 – c. 1765) was an 18th-century Italian artist best known as a portraitist. She spent much of her career in the city of Brescia, Venice, but is also affiliated with the city of Bologna. She was made an honorary member of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna in 1767, one of few women painters at the time to be recognized institutionally.