Under the patronage in Rome of cardinal Bernardino Honorati, he was influenced by Camuccini, Pelagio Palagi, Felice Giani, and Bartolomeo Pinelli.
In 1818–27 he went to Italy, and continued his art studies at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome under Andrea Pozzi and privately with Vincenzo Camuccini and Bertel Thorvaldsen; as well as at the Academy of Vienna since 1822 under Antonio Canova.
Vincenzo Bellini | Vincenzo Viviani | Vincenzo Camuccini | Vincenzo Scamozzi | Vincenzo Monti | Vincenzo | Vincenzo Scotti | Vincenzo Lunardi | Castel San Vincenzo | Vincenzo Vela | Vincenzo Scaramuzza | Vincenzo Onorato | Vincenzo Nibali | Vincenzo La Scola | Vincenzo Giustiniani | Vincenzo Gamba | Vincenzo Galilei | Vincenzo Chiarugi | Vincenzo Cardarelli | San Vincenzo | Vincenzo Virga | Vincenzo Vannutelli | Vincenzo Sospiri | Vincenzo Ruffo | Vincenzo Onorato (sailor) | Vincenzo Lunardi's | Vincenzo Lancia | Vincenzo Gioberti | Vincenzo de Vit | Vincenzo de Domini |
The building is now occupied by a bank; though the interiors still possess major works of art and decoration, including paintings by Luca Giordano, Bernardo Strozzi, Pieter Mulier the younger, Domenico Maria Canuti, Lionello Spada, Fabrizio Chiari, Felice Giani, Vincenzo Camuccini, Francesco Zuccarelli, Francesco Manno and Giuseppe Bonito.
Raphael's Sposalizio (the Marriage of the Virgin) was the key painting of the early collection, and the Academy increased its cultural scope by taking on associates across the First French Empire: David, Pietro Benvenuti, Vincenzo Camuccini, Canova, Thorvaldsen and the archaeologist Ennio Quirino Visconti.