Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688–1765) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Piacenza.
Biography Ercole was a pupil of the painter Donato Creti and Marcantonio Franceschini. Pope Benedict XIV ordered a copy of his St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaire (Bologna Cathedral) for the church of Sant'Apollinare in Rome."Altare Maggiore", Basilica di Sant'Apollinare – Roma
He also painted altarpieces depicting respectively St. Simon Stock receives a scapular from the Virgin and St. Pietro Thoma for the first chapels to the left and right of the Church of the Carmine in Medicina. City of Medicina site.
Among his many pupils are Giuseppe Becchetti,Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine, 1796, Volume 8, page 730. Antonio Concioli, and Carlo Bianconi.
References
Graziani biography.