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Nittis, Giuseppe de
Italian, 1846-84
Italian painter, pastellist and printmaker. Throughout his career he was committed to a plein-air aesthetic and was particularly interested in rendering varying light effects, a concern that brought him into contact with the Impressionists. He was also acquainted with the members of the Macchiaioli, for whom his work was influential. In addition to oils, he experimented with printmaking and made innovative use of pastels. Practising a restrained, and therefore 'acceptable', form of Impressionism, he achieved great success in his lifetime, Related Paintings of Nittis, Giuseppe de :. | Scene | Still life with a Basket of Potatoes Surrounded by Autumn Leaves aned Vegetables (nn04) | Portrait of Leo Tolstoy | Place d'Anvers (nn02) | The Flight into Egypt | Related Artists: Henry LebasquesFrench
1865-1932
ATTAVANTE DEGLI ATTAVANTIItalian miniaturist, Florentine school (b. 1452, Castelfiorentino, d. ca. 1525, Firenze) Portana, Vicente LopezSpanish Painter, 1772-1850
was a Spanish painter, considered the best portrait painter of his time. Vicente Lepez y Portaña was born in Valencia on September 19, 1772. His parents were Cristebal Lepez Sanchordi and Manuela Portaña Meer. Vicente Lepez began formally studying painting in Valencia at the age of thirteen, he was a disciple of father Antonio de Villanueva, a Franciscan monk, and he studied at the Academy of San Carlos in his native city. He was seventeen when he won first price in drawing and coloring receiving a scholarship to study in the prestigious Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. For the following three years in Madrid, he apprenticed with the Valencian painter, Mariano Salvador Maella. Vicente Lepez returned to Valencia in 1794 and subsequently became vice-director of painting at the Academy where he had studied as a boy.
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