Niccolò Cannicci | Genre painter

Niccolò Cannicci (1846-1906) was an Italian painter🎨, who painted urban and rural views, often depicting the intersection of the urban and industrial landscape with the rural and pastoral.

He was born in Florence. He began his studies in design at Academy of Fine Arts of Florence under professors Marrubini and Pollastrini, and from there moved to the studio of professor Antonio Ciseri.

He then was influenced by the school of the Macchiaioli🎨.

He moved to San Gemignano.

He painted mainly landscapes and genre paintings🎨 of peasant life and animals.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Vita ed Opere

Còrcos Vittorio Matteo - Figlio di Isach è di Giuditta Baquis, nacque a Livorno il 4 ottobre del 1859.

Egli si indirizzò subito allo studio del disegno iscrivendosi all'Accademia di belle arti di Firenze, ove dal 1846 era professore un, altro livornese famoso, E. Pollastrini.

Vittorio Corcos | An Elegant Lady in a Pink Hat and Dress, 1888

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (1859-1933) was an Italian painter, known for his portraits.

Many of his genre works depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women, in moments of repose and recreation.

He was born to Jewish parents, in Livorno. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence under Enrico Pollastrini.

Between 1878-1879 he worked under Domenico Morelli in Naples.

Giovanni Battista Lombardi | Ruth, 1864

Commissioned in 1859 by contessa Marietta Mazuchelli Longo, Lombardi's Ruth was the first of the artist's Old Testament subjects; a series which also included his Rebecca, Deborah, Susanna and Sulamite.

Lombardi's reputation had been built on his sensitive and innovative memorial sculpture, which he produced with his brother Giovita, in the studio in Rome which they set up in 1852.

The contessa Longo was a long-time supporter of Lombardi and indeed had previously commissioned a funerary monument to her deceased husband from the artist.

Olga Boznanska | Hands detail

Olga Boznańska (1865-1940) was a Polish painter, active in Munich and Paris.

Stylistically associated with the French impressionism, Boznańska received the French Legion of Honour in 1912, the Golden Laurel of the Polish Academy of Literature in 1936, the Grand Prix at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques la Vie Moderne in 1937, and the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1938.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Boznańska see:

• Olga Boznanska | Impressionist painter