Charles Edward Perugini
Charles Edward Perugini (1 September 1839 – 22 December 1918), originally Carlo Perugini, was an Italian-born English painter of the Romantic and Victorian era.
Biography
Perugini was born in
In 1874, he married the youngest daughter of novelist Charles Dickens, who as Kate Perugini[2] pursued her own artistic career, sometimes collaborating with her husband. Perugini's 1878 picture A Girl Reading, perhaps his best-known single work, is in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery. It was bequeathed by James Thomas Blair in 1917.
Perugini's portrait of Sophie Gray, the sister-in-law of Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais, was for many years mistaken for a work by Millais himself.
Perugini and his wife maintained an active social life in artistic circles of their era. He died in London.
Works
- A Girl Reading (1878; Manchester Art Gallery)
- Orange Blossoms (1879)
- Faithful (1879; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
- Tender Cares (1880)[3]
- Idle Moments (before 1885)
- A Summer Shower (1888; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull)
- 'The Highborn Ladye-Moore' (Untraced)
- La Superba (Untraced)
- Graziella
- A Backward Glance
Gallery (selected)
-
Perugini's portrait of his wife Kate -
A Summer Shower -
A Girl Reading -
The Ramparts, Walmer Castle; Portraits of the Countess Granville, and the Ladies Victoria and Mary Leveson-Gower -
Portrait of Sophia Gray
References
- ^ Christopher Wood, Victorian Painting, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999; p. 227.
- ^ Lucinda Hawksley, Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter, New York: Doubleday, 2006.
- ^ "Exhibition of Paintings, Walker Art Gallery: No. III", Liverpool Mercury, 18 September 1880, p. 6.
External links
- Perugini's A Backward Glance.
- Silva.
- The portrait of Sophie Grey.
- The Green Lizard - Rehs Galleries' biography and an image of the artist's 1902 Royal Academypainting.
| International | |
|---|---|
| Artists | |
