Eduardo Gelli (1853 in

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– 1933) was an Italian painter, mainly of

genre Genre () is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other fo ...

costume portraits.

Biography

He trained in

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under

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. The contemporary American art collector

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grouped him in with Francesco Vinea and Tito Conti, two other costume genre painters. At the

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of 1904, he displayed ''The Lost Chord''.Notable paintings by Foreign Artists at the St. Louis Fair
The Perry Magazine, Volume 6, by Eugene Ashton Perry, page 471.

References

1853 births 1933 deaths Italian costume genre painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub