Francesco Mancini was an Italian painter whose works are known between 1719 and 1756. He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani. His contemporaries considered him one of the best painters of his time: above all, the clear and luminous tones of his work were admired. He was a member of the French Academy in Rome (1732), the Accademia dei Virtuosi in the Pantheon of Rome (1743 and 1745) and director of the Accademia di San Luca (1750–51).