Edoardo Gelli

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Eduardo Gelli (1853 in Savona – 1933) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre costume portraits.

Biography[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ The New School of Italian Painting and Sculpture, by James Jackson Jarves, Harper's Monthly, Volume 60, Number 358; March 1880, page 487.
  2. ^ Notable paintings by Foreign Artists at the St. Louis Fair, The Perry Magazine, Volume 6, by Eugene Ashton Perry, page 471.