Francesco Beda (

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, 29 November 1840 – 30 July 1900) was a painter from Austria-Hungary, mainly depicted costume

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subjects. The "costume genre subjects" were popular with some buyers, and depicted individuals in anachronistic, often aristocratic garb of the prior centuries, often entertained in either gallantry or frivolous enjoyment.

Biography

Francesco studied with

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, but in addition to working in his native Trieste, he travelled and painted for patrons in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. He painted portraits of the

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, the Prince of Rolian, and Bishop Strossmayer of Zagreb. He also had an interest in Orientalist subjects as exemplified by '' Il Caffè Orientale di Trieste'' (c. 1888), now on display in the Civic Museum of Oriental Art of Trieste and the ''Capture of Slaves'' Francesco's son Giulio Beda (Trieste 1879-

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, 1942) was also a painter. After studying with

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in Venice; in 1901 he moved to Munich in Bavaria, where he married the daughter of the painter

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.Encyclopedia Treccani
entry by Remigio Marini in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 7 (1970). One of Beda's most famous works, "Chess Game" was infamously stolen from a private collection in London. Interpol tracked the painting to the United States but lost the trail somewhere in New Jersey.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beda, Francesco 1840 births 1900 deaths Painters from Austria-Hungary Artists from Trieste