Michele Gordigiani
Some of his artwork has sold for as high as $25,000.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Age: Circa 1880-1909
Painting Size: 15" x 8"
Artist: Michele Gordigiani
Frame Size: 19" x 12"
Signature: Signed
Frame: Original Frame/Frame has touch up
Subject: Portrait
Style: Traditional
You are bidding on a beautiful original oil painting "Portrait of Man" by listed artist Michele Gordigiani 1830-1909, this piece was created in circa 1850-1909, its oil painting on canvas, in great overall condition for its age, details please see photos below, comes with original frame. There is a copper plate on the frame. Frame has touch ups
Michele Gordigiani (1830 - 1909)
The son of a musician, he is best known for his portraits of notable persons, in particular Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning (now at the National Portrait Gallery, London, England).
Michele Gordigiani (Florence, May 29, 1835 – Florence, October 7, 1909) was an Italian painter, known best for his portraits.[1]
Gordigiani was the son of a famous Florentine musician. He first studied at the Academy in Florence under Giuseppe Bezzuoli, then Luigi Norcini and Silvestro Lega; he also worked in the studios of Luigi Mussini and Adolph Sturler. In 1855, he frequented the Caffè Michelangiolo along with his brother Anatolio, where he met many of the Macchiaioli painters. He painted a portrait of the Piedmontese painter, Ludovico Raymond, who also spent time at the Caffè.
He was invited to Paris in 1860 by his friend, Virginia Oldoini, the Countess of Castiglione.[2] He was in much demand as a portrait painter, and among his subjects were King Vittorio Emanuele II, his daughter-in-law Queen Margherita, and the Count of Cavour. In 1867 in London, he painted portraits of Queen Victoria, and her consort, Prince Albert.
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.
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