Augusto Volpini
Appearance
Augusto Volpini (1832 – 1911 or 1923[1]) was an Italian painter, mainly genre paintings and portraits.
He was born in Livorno, and initially trained with the Livornese painter Giovanni Bartolena. Among his works: Varietà, Daydreaming child, and Il colpo di grazia. In 1886 at Livorno, he exhibited Una mosca simpatica. At the 1886 Promotrici of Florence, he exhibited Studio; in 1887, Odalisca; and in 1889, Povera madre! and a Portrait of Carlotta Cordarf.[2] He became professor and curator of the local academy.[3]
References
- ^ Giovanni Fattori: epistolario edito e inedito, by Piero Dini, Giovanni Fattori, Francesca Dini (1997): page 483.
- ^ ‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 553.
- ^ Catalog of local collection by Volpini.