Eduardo Gelli (1853 in

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– 1933) was an Italian painter, mainly of

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costume portraits.

Biography

He trained in

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under

Antonio Ciseri Antonio Ciseri (25 October 1821 – 8 March 1891) was a Swiss-Italian painter of religious subjects. Biography He was born in Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland. He went to Florence in 1833 to study drawing with Ernesto Bonaiuti. Within a year, ...

. The contemporary American art collector

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grouped him in with

Francesco Vinea Francesco Vinea (Forlì, August 10, 1845 - Florence, October 22, 1902) was an Italian painter, known for his period costume genre subjects. 300px He studied first at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to discontinue his studies due t ...

and

Tito Conti Tito Conti (1842–1924) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre costume or historical subjects. Biography He was born and lived in Florence, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts. He was resident professor at the Academic College of ...

, 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