Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735 - 1787) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a late- Baroque and early Neoclassical style. [1]
He was born in Sissa in the Province of Parma; his father, Paolo, was a painter in the Ducal court. Pietro studied under Giuseppe Peroni, [2] and later in the Academy of Fine Arts at Parma under Giuseppe Baldrighi. [3]