Edoardo Tofano
Edoardo Tofano | |
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Born | 31 August 1838 Naples |
Died | 20 December 1920 (aged 82) Rome |
Occupation | Painter |
Edoardo Tofano (1838 in Naples – 1920 in Rome) was an Italian painter. He painted historic, genre and Orientalist themes.[1]
Biography
[edit]He began his studies at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but completed studies at the Accademia Clementina of Bologna. He then returned to Naples where he became a follower of the Realism of Domenico Morelli. At the age of 23 (1861), he was recruited as an instructor at the Art Institute of Naples, a post he held until 1864. He resigned to create works marketed by the Goupil Gallery in Paris, and was patronized by British collectors.[2]
Among his work are The cabin of Nelson and Donna con Ventaglio (Girl with Fan)[3] He also painted orientalist subjects and portraits, including those exhibited at 1897 at London, Portrait of Lady Hastings Campbell (Flora Mure-Campbell, Marchioness of Hastings?) and in 1906 at Paris (Princess Alexandria of Yugoslavia).[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Italian Beni Culturali, Donna con Ventaglio, private collection.
- ^ Short biography by art seller.
- ^ Italian Beni Culturali.
- ^ Istituto Matteucci short biography.
- 1838 births
- 1920 deaths
- 19th-century Italian painters
- Kingdom of the Two Sicilies people
- Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Naples
- Italian Orientalist painters
- Accademia Albertina alumni
- 19th-century Italian male artists
- 20th-century Italian male artists
- Italian painter, 19th-century birth stubs