Michele Gordigiani
Michele Gordigiani (29 May 1835 – 7 October 1909) was an Italian painter, known best for his portraits.[1]
Biography
Gordigiani was born in Florence, the son of
He was invited to Paris in 1860 by his friend,
He also painted portraits (1898–1899) of Elizabeth and her husband Robert Browning, now in the National Portrait Gallery.[3] In London, he participated at the exhibition of the Royal Society of Arts.
Due to his friendship with Luigi Mussini, he was a member of the commission for the triennial contest for painting at the Sienese institute of Art. In this period, his colleagues and friends included the writers and intellectuals Andrea Maffei, Edmondo De Amicis, and Enrico Nencioni.
He also painted costume genre subjects, as well as mythology, and small landscapes. His genre scenes did not prove commercially successful. In 1896 he sent works to the Florentine Exhibition of Art and Flowers and at the Second Venice Biennale. In 1909 moved to America, where he continued to work as a portrait artist.[4]
Among his pupils were Fosco Tricca, Francesca Magliani, Pompeo Massani, and Alfredo Müller.
Gordigiani died in Florence. He was buried at the Cimitero delle Porte Sante.
Gallery
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King Chulalongkorn of Siam (1898) -
Portrait of Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury -
Queen Margherita of Savoy -
Portrait of
Sarah Choate Sears
References
- ^ The British National Portrait Gallery cites his birth date as 1830
- ^ Palazzo Strozzi exhibition of Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists.
- ^ National Portrait Gallery images.
- ^ Pinacoteca Livorno Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine short biography extracted from La pittura in Italia - l'Ottocento. Electa , Milano 1992 .
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