Ferdinando Cavalleri
Young Woman with Turban Playing Music
Portrait of the Composer Gaspare Spontini
Ferdinando Cavalleri (1794–1867) was an Italian history and portrait painter.
Life
He was born at Turin, and studied art at Rome. He was in later life a professor at the Academy of St. Luke.
Works
His works include:
Beatrice Cenci ascending the Scaffold.
The Burning of Old St. Paul's.
The Death of Leonardo da Vinci.
Prince Eugene, after the Battle of Peterwardein.
His own Portrait (in the Uffizi, Florence).
References
Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Cavalleri, Ferdinando". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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