Oreste Costa (1851 - 1901) was an Italian painter, active mainly painting genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes.
Young John the Baptist
Biography
He was born in Florence, and trained under Antonio Ciseri. Among his works was a Gli ultimi Sforzi.[1] His brother Antonio was also a painter. He exhibited frequently in England.[2] One of his paintings, a genre scene with tippling elderly peasants is found at the Hillwood museum.[3]
References
Piccolo dizionario dei contemporanei italiani, by Angelo Gubernatis (1895), page 270.
Il Valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo del Novecento, by Giuseppe Luigi Marini (2001), Page 254.
Collection of Hillwood museum.
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