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 "Peonies". (Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery) |
Perugini, Charles Edward |
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BORN 1 Sep 1839, Napoli - DIED 22 Dec 1918, London GRAVE LOCATION Sevenoaks, Kent: St. Nicholas churchyard (family grave) |
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Charles Perugini was born in Naples. His family - that had resided
in England in the past - went back to England when he was six
years old. When he was 17 he was sent to Italy by H. Vernet
after the latter had seen his drawings. he studied under Guiseppe
Bonolis and Guiseppe Mancinelli and in 1854 in France under
Ary Scheffer. In France he met Dickens who sat for his portrait
by Scheffer. Dickens daughter Kate was also there at the time
but he didn't meet her. Eventually he would marry her in 1874. A few years later Perugini returned to Engeland (encouraged by Frederic Leighton) and in 1863 he moved London, where "Playing at Work" was his first painting that was exhibited at the Royal Academy. His work reminds of Leighton and of Alma-Tadema because of the classical settings ad the elegant women, but is is colder in nature. Perugini frequently and succesfully solved the chess problems that were published in The Times. Work: "Girl Reading" (1878, Sudley Art Gallery). Family • Wife: Dickens, Kate Macready Related persons • painted Dickens, Kate Macready Sources • Brian Yoder's Art Gallery & Critic's Corner, Internet, 1997 • Victorian art in Britain |
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"Peonies". (Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery) |
