Clelia Bompiani-Battaglia (5 August 1848 in

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

– 23 February 1927 in Rome) was an Italian painter. She was a pupil of her father,

Roberto Bompiani Roberto Bompiani (February 10, 1821 – January 19, 1908) was an Italian painter and sculptor. Bompiani was born in Rome. By the age of fifteen, he had enrolled at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, where in 1836 he shared a first prize with f ...

, and of the professors in the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca () is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first ''principe'' or director; ...

. She was an accomplished watercolorist. The following paintings in watercolor established her reputation as an artist: ''Confidential Communication'' ( (1885); the ''Fortune-Teller'' (1887); ''A Public Copyist'' (1888); and ''The Wooing'' (1888). Along with

Alceste Campriani 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 Terni from a noble family. His father's political attachment to the cause of ...

Ada Negri Ada Negri (3 February 187011 January 1945) was an Italian poet and writer. She was the only woman to be admitted to the Academy of Italy. Biography Ada Negri was born in Lodi, Italy on 3 February 1870. Her father, Giuseppe Negri, was a coachm ...

Juana Romani Juana Romani (born Carolina Giovanna Carlesimo; 30 April 1867 – 13 June 1923) was an Italian-born French portrait painter and artists' model. Biography She was born in Velletri (Latium, Italie) on April 30, 1867. At the age of ten, she m ...

, and Erminia de Sanctis, Bompiani is named as one of Italy's best modern painters.

Gallery

Clelia Bompiani Ragazza col tamburello.jpg, Woman with tambourine Shepherd Boy - Clelia Bompiani-Battaglia.jpg, Shepherd Boy Italian Peasant Woman at a Well - Clelia Bompiani-Battaglia.png, Italian Peasant Woman at a Well

References

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