Edoardo Gelli
Eduardo Gelli (1853 in Savona – 1933) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre costume portraits.
Biography[]
He trained in Florence under Antonio Ciseri. The contemporary American art collector James Jackson Jarves grouped him in with Francesco Vinea and Tito Conti, two other costume genre painters.[1] At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, he displayed The Lost Chord.[2]
References[]
- ^ The New School of Italian Painting and Sculpture, by James Jackson Jarves, Harper's Monthly, Volume 60, Number 358; March 1880, page 487.
- ^ Notable paintings by Foreign Artists at the St. Louis Fair, The Perry Magazine, Volume 6, by Eugene Ashton Perry, page 471.
Categories:
- 1853 births
- 1933 deaths
- Italian costume genre painters
- 19th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Florence
- 19th-century male artists
- Italian painter, 19th-century birth stubs