Why did Giovanni Battista Tiepolo remain in Venice instead of accepting work in Stockholm?

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo remained in Venice during the 1730s because he was in high demand locally, with both the clergy and the nobility actively competing for his work. During this period, he was widely celebrated as "the most famous of the virtuosi" within the city.1

Rather than traveling to Stockholm to decorate the royal palace as requested by Count Tessin in 1736, Tiepolo preferred to remain in his home city and fulfill his commissions by sending his completed works abroad.1