Gustavo Mancinelli

Quick Facts

Intro

Italian painter

Places

Italy

was

Painter

Work field

Arts

Gender

Male

Birth

1842

Place of birth

Rome, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy

Death

1906

Place of death

Naples, Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, Italy

Age

64 years

The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Gustavo Mancinelli (Rome, 1842 - Naples, 12 April 1906) was an Italian painter, who made portraits and depicted many Orientalist subjects.

Biography

The son and pupil of the painter Giuseppe Mancinelli, he exhibited great talent at a very young age. His first exhibition was in Naples in 1855, when he was just 13 years.

He resided in Naples where he was honorary professor of the Institute of Fine Arts.

His work includes many altarpieces; portraits of aristocratic personalities of the day, including: the King and Queen, Umberto I and Margherita di Savoia (1884), the Ambassador from Berlin, and the Prince del Montenegro. He also showed a preference for sacred and historical subject matter.

Awards and recognition

He was awarded the silver medal at the Exhibition Napoletana del 1855 and a gold medal in 1859. He exhibited in Turin in 1880: A Marrocchina, and portraits while, in 1883 at Rome, a portrait of Queen Margherita.