Alceste Campriani (11 February 1848 – 1933) was an Italian painter noted for his landscapes, especially of the Neapolitan countryside.

Life and career

He was born in

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from a noble family. His father's political attachment to the cause of Italy prompted his arrest by Papal officers. This led to economic difficulties for the Campriani family. He was enrolled in the

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

Institute of Fine arts, but he proved recalcitrant to academic discipline, and abandoned the institute to paint on his own. After a few years of near destitution, he was about to abandon an artistic career altogether, when he garnered a prize for composition awarded by the institute. He befriended

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, who introduced him to the

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, who went on to market over one hundred of his works to England, France, Belgium, and the Americas. During the early 1860s, he joined the group of artists known as the

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(or in Italy known as the ''Republica di Portici''), founded by

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, and

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were also soon working. He and other artists including Raffaele Belliazzi,

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and

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joined sometime after the group's formation in 1860–61. Working in the Neapolitan countryside, members of this group were isolated from other art groups or movements and tended to focus on Morellism and folklore painting. His paintings mixed

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and landscape, focusing on the traditions and countryside of Campania. Like

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, he often painted children and animals in pastoral pursuits. At the 1880 Exhibition in Turin, he exhibited ''Il Ritorno dal Santuario di Montevergine'', which gained him much praise. Among his other works are ''Il ritorno dal mercato'', ''Tra

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'', ''Il mercato dei cavalli'', ''La partita a bocce'', ''Caccia con la civetta'', ''Spiaggia delle Sirene'', ''Il venditore di polli'', ''I bagnanti a Napoli'', ''Colloquio'', ''Jardin d'acclimation'', ''Autunno sul

Vesuvio Mount Vesuvius ( ; it, Vesuvio ; nap, 'O Vesuvio , also or ; la, Vesuvius , also , or ) is a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of s ...

'' exhibited in Florence in 1896, ''Ritorno dal pascolo'' exhibited in Turin in 1898, ''Scirocco sull costiera d'

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'', ''Tramonto in Danimarca'', ''Pastorale'', ''Mattino'' exhibited in Milan in 1898, and ''Primavera'' exhibited in Rome in 1895. Emporium: rivista mensile illustrata d'arte, letteratura, science
Vittorio Pica; Volume 17, number 102, June, 1903; Instituto Italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo, Italy; page 405-416. Campriani died in 1933 in

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Gallery

File:2017-02 Alceste Campriani - Ritratto di Adelina Campriani, figlia dell'artista.jpg, ''Portrait of Adelina Campriani, daughter of the artist'', 1910 File:Alceste Campriani pescatori.jpg, ''Fishermen'' File:2017-02 Alceste Campriani - Papaveri.jpg, ''Poppies'', oil on panel,
11 × 18 cm (4.3 × 7.1 in) File:2017-02 Alceste Campriani - Pappagalli.jpg, ''Parrots'' File:Campriani Alceste.jpg, Self portrait of Alceste Campriani

References

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