Eugenio Prati (27 January 1842 - 8 March 1907) was an Italian painter, active in the Trentino, painting genre subjects. Eugenio Prati, Ritratto della baronessa Giulia Turco Turcato Lazzari, 1877, coll

Eugenio Prati, Ritratto della baronessa Giulia Turco Turcato Lazzari, 1877, coll

Biography

He was born in

Caldonazzo Caldonazzo (german: Gallnötsch, cim, Kalnètsch) is a ''commune'' in Valsugana, in Trentino, northern Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located ...

in the

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. He trained at the

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, and then further studies in

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at the patronage of a local Baron of Trentino. In 1879, he returns to Trentino, and settles in the

Valsugana The Valsugana ( it, Valsugana, german: Suganertal) or Sugana Valley is one of the most important valleys in the autonomous province of Trentino in Northern Italy. Leading into the Alps' foothills, an important main north-south Roman road, the Vi ...

. Here he dedicated himself to painting mainly rural

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themes, although also some sacred and historic subjects, and costume genre paintings. He exhibited ''Ancora un momento'' e ''Ritorno da Massaua'' at the 1887 Esposizione Nazionale di Venezia; the painting ''Primi fiori''in 1892 in Venice, and sent this painting to exhibitions over the next half-decade at Genoa, Chicago, Berlin, and St Petersburg. He painted a ''Portrait of Maria Sardagna Thun'' and a ''Veduta di Passo Buole''. Other works include ''Abile'', ''Si espetta lo sposo'', ''Time is Money'', ''Nozze in Val di Tesino'', and ''Uomo che piange e preso''.Piccolo dizionario dei contemporanei italiani
by Angelo Gubernatis (1895), page 719.

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1842 births 1907 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub