Eduardo Gelli (1853 in Savona – 1933) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre costume portraits.
Biography
editHe trained in Florence under Antonio Ciseri. The contemporary American art collector James Jackson Jarves grouped him in with Francesco Vinea and Tito Conti, two other costume genre painters.[1] At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, he displayed The Lost Chord.[2]
References
edit- ^ The New School of Italian Painting and Sculpture, by James Jackson Jarves, Harper's Monthly, Volume 60, Number 358; March 1880, page 487.
- ^ Notable paintings by Foreign Artists at the St. Louis Fair, The Perry Magazine, Volume 6, by Eugene Ashton Perry, page 471.
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