Eduardo Dalbono (10 December 1841 – 23 August 1915) was an Italian painter born in

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Biography

The son of a writer and art critic father and poet mother, Edoardo Dalbono attended the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in

in 1853, but left it shortly afterwards to join Nicola Palizzi’s studio. In 1859 he participated in Mostra di Belle Arti at the Real Museo Borbonico winning the silver medal; he then became interested in the Scuola di Resina, and his artistic research centred on life studies of nature. In 1867 he began showing his works regularly at the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti in Naples and other exhibitions; he won the silver medal at the National Exposition at the Accademia di Belle Arti di

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in 1870 with a history painting and the bronze medal at the international exhibition in Vienna in 1873. From 1878 to 1888 he lived in

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and, with the help of his friend Giuseppe De Nittis, entered into a contract with the art dealer

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. During this decade he returned to Italy several times, staying in

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and

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, and also continued the activity he had begun years earlier as an illustrator. He was one of the founders of the Società Napoletana degli Artisti, and later of the Circolo Artistico, and in 1897 was appointed professor of painting at the Naples Academy. He went on to show his works in the international exhibitions in

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in 1895,

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in 1904 and

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in 1911. He died in Naples in 1915. Among his pupils was Carlo Brancaccio.

Works

* ''Adelina e Eleonora'' - National Museum of Capodimonte * ''La leggenda delle sirene'' - ''Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti'' of Naples * ''Pescatori di Napoli'' - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Fisherman's idyll (1878), by Eduardo Dalbono.jpg, Fisherman's Idyll The Terrace by Eduardo Dalbono, 1865-1867 - Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna - Rome, Italy - DSC05444.jpg, The Terrace Artgate Fondazione Cariplo - Dalbono Edoardo, Studio o Il Vesuvio.jpg, Study of

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The tarantella dance (unknown date), by Edoardo Dalbono.jpg, The

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Little washerwoman (unknown date), by Edoardo Dalbono.jpg, The Little Washerwoman

Sources

* Laura Casone
Eduardo Dalbono
online catalogu
Artgate
by

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, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

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