Antonio Lotti

Antonio Lotti (5 January 1667, Venice — 5 January 1740, Ibid.) was an Italian composer of the Baroque period.

Note on the portrait: this chalk sketch by composer and painter Giovanni Lorenzo Somis (1688—1775) contained a handwritten "Antonius Lotti" inscription on the back; however, it's done in pencil posthumously, and thus cannot be definitively attributed. Many online sources on Antonio Lotti also erroneously include portraits of either Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello (1686—1739) or Austrian composer Johann Joseph Fux (ca.1660—1741).