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D MORELLI OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS OF PEOPLE IN BOAT

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Decorative Arts Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
D MORELLI OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS OF PEOPLE IN BOAT
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Domenico Morelli (Italy 1826-1901). Depicts a group of people in a wooden boat. The people are singing and dancing. One woman is playing a harp. Measures 8 5/8" height x 14 1/4" width + 5 1/4" matte & frame. Domenico Morelli (1823–1901) was an Italian painter, one of the most important Neapolitan artists of the 19th century. He enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Naples in 1836. His early works are Romantic and contain imagery drawn from the Middle Ages and Byron. In 1848 he won a fellowship to study in Rome and took part in the insurrections of 1848 and was wounded and briefly imprisoned. Morelli visited Florence in the 1850s where he received his first public recognition for The Iconoclasts. He participated in the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1855 and, later, in Florence was an active participant in the Macchiaioli discussions on Realism. Morelli claimed that it was these discussions that made his own work less academic and helped him to develop a freer style and to experiment with color. In this period, he is grouped into the school