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Francesca Stuart Sindici

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Francesca Stuart Sindici
Born1858
Diedc. 1929
NationalitySpain, Italy

Francesca Stuart Sindici (1858 – c. 1929) was a Spanish-Italian painter.

A Carriage Race at Naples

Sindici was born in Madrid in 1858 and became a pupil of Eduardo Dalbono and Domenico Morelli at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.[1] She married the Italian poet Augusto Sindici. Together they had a daughter, Magda, who became a novelist and later married a publisher. She died in 1929 at the age of 71.

Sindici is best known for her paintings of horses and cavalry. Her painting A Carriage Race at Naples was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Stuart Sindici in Italian dictionary of artists
  2. ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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