Filippo Giuntotardi was born in Rome in 1768. He was initially a sculptor and then studied at the Académie Saint-Luc where he devoted himself to landscape painting and from 1810 he also produced engravings and acquatints. Among some of his known works are 'Vue du Forum', 1805, painted for Prince Georges of Mecklembourg; 'Vue de Tivoli'; and illustrations for a work by Dodwell entitled 'Antiquités grecques et pélasgiques'. Other known works by Giuntotardi are at the Palais Colonna in Rome, which has twelve acquatints after Poussin's landscapes.