Elia Interguglielmi (1746 – 16 May 1835) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical style, active in
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 ...
and
Palermo
Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...
.
He was born in Naples and died in Palermo. He initially worked under
Gaspare Fumagalli in Palermo, but in 1762 was working in Naples as an assistant to
Giuseppe Bonito
Giuseppe Bonito (11 January 1707 – 9 May 1789) was a Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period. Giuseppe Bonito is known for genre depictions on canvas. Many of Gaspare Traversi's paintings had previously been attributed to Bonito.
Biograp ...
and
Antonio Dominici. He returned to Palermo where he worked in the fresco decoration of palaces and churches.
One of his descendants, likely grandson, is Eugenio Interguglielmi (19th century), who was a prominent photographer in Palermo. His family. In 1863, he opened a studio on largo Santa Sofia and corso Vittorio Emanuele. Eugenio the younger (1876-1948) was also a photographer, with a studio on via Cavour n. 84, facing piazzetta Valenti. Eugenio the younger's sister, Celestina (1880 - 1957) married the photographer Benedetto Bronzetti (1870 - 1944). There son Eugenio Bronzetti was also a prominent photographer. Roberto Interguglielmi (1912 - 1999) was also a photographer. Finally, the granddaughter of Roberto since 1999 has worked at photography.
Comune of Palermo
biographies.
References
*Derived from Italian Wikipedia entry
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1746 births
1835 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Naples
Rococo painters
19th-century Italian male artists
18th-century Italian male artists