#macchiaioli

"Portrait of Mary Donegani" - Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931)

Girolamo Pieri Pecci Ballati Nerli, born into an aristocratic family in Siena (his father was a Marchese), trained in Florence and was affiliated with the Macchiaioli, a group of Italian artists whose interest in plein air painting and rapid brushstrokes paved the way for French Impressionism. He later moved to Melbourne (1885) and Sydney (1886), Australia, exhibiting with success and influencing the nascent Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionists. During a visit to Samoa in 1892, he painted a portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson that is considered the best extant portrait of that author, and which now hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

Conversation at the Cafe - Giovanni Boldini, c. 1879

Crossing the street (1873) by Giovanni Boldini. Clark Art Institute.

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Fillide Giorgi Levasti was an italian painter, pupil of one of the major painter of the italian 19th century, Giovanni Fattori, and longtime friend of other women artists like Leonetta Cecchi Pieraccini (mother of Suso Cecchi d'Amico, the future screenwriter of many iconic italian movies) and Evelyn Scarampi. She was a great admired of Paul Cézanne, and the post impressionism and symbolist artists from Central Europe.

Giuseppe De Nittis, Colazione in giardino (1883)

Among the flowers in the garden, Silvestro Lega, 1862