Washerwomen
Michele Cammarano (Neapel 1835 - Neapel 1920)
Lot-No. 352
Oil/canvas. 39 x 58 cm. Lo. ri. sign. M. Cammarano. Min. retouchings. - Italian history, figure and landscape painter. After first painting lessons with his grandfather, C. studied at the Academy in Naples from 1853. Already in 1863 King Victor Emmanuel II acquired one of his paintings. Later he was also active in Florence, Rome and Venice, where he further developed his initially somewhat idyllic, then socially engaged realism in the direction of French Impressionism. His history paintings are also significant. In 1900 he became a professor in Naples. Mus.: Rom (Gall. Naz. d'Arte Morderna), Neapel (Capodimonte). Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Michele Cammarano: Washerwomen
Michele Cammarano (Neapel 1835 - Neapel 1920)
Washerwomen
Lot-No. 352
Oil/canvas. 39 x 58 cm. Lo. ri. sign. M. Cammarano. Min. retouchings. - Italian history, figure and landscape painter. After first painting lessons with his grandfather, C. studied at the Academy in Naples from 1853. Already in 1863 King Victor Emmanuel II acquired one of his paintings. Later he was also active in Florence, Rome and Venice, where he further developed his initially somewhat idyllic, then socially engaged realism in the direction of French Impressionism. His history paintings are also significant. In 1900 he became a professor in Naples. Mus.: Rom (Gall. Naz. d'Arte Morderna), Neapel (Capodimonte). Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
