Achille Vianelli
Achille Vianelli or Vianelly (21 December 1803 – 2 April 1894) was an Italian painter of landscapes with genre scenes, often in watercolor. • Illustration — Piazza San Gaetano and San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples, c. 1845 He was born in Porto Maurizio; he moved as a child to Otranto, where his father was consul for the French government. In 1819, he moved to Naples, where he first worked in the Royal Topographic Office, where he met Giacinto Gigante.
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- Achille Vianelli was born on 31 December 1803. · Porto Maurizio.
- Died
- Achille Vianelli died on 2 April 1894. · Benevento.
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- Kingdom of Italy
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- painter · engraver
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- landscape
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Achille Vianelli or Vianelly (21 December 1803 – 2 April 1894) was an Italian painter of landscapes with genre scenes, often in watercolor. • Illustration — Piazza San Gaetano and San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples, c. 1845 He was born in Porto Maurizio; he moved as a child to Otranto, where his father was consul for the French government. In 1819, he moved to Naples, where he first worked in the Royal Topographic Office, where he met Giacinto Gigante.
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He published (with Gigante and others) a series of lithographs in a Viaggio pittorico nel Regno delle Due Sicilie (1829–1834). In 1848, he moved to Benevento, where he continued drawing and painting. He married Gigante's sister, and vice versa, and is considered a member of the School of Posillipo. His son, Alberto Vianelli, also a landscape painter moved to Paris. Vianelli's sister, Flora, married Theodore Witting, a German landscape artist and engraver. His nephew Gustavo Witting, also became a landscape painter. He was a knight of the Order of Francesco I of the Two Sicilies, and honorary professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples. Vianelli died in Benevento on 2 April 1894.
Der Arco di Traiano in Benevento. Feder und Pinsel in Braun über schwarzem Stift. Mit brauner Feder unten rechts bezeichnet, signiert und datiert: 30. augt. 1847 Benevento. Vianelli. 33 x 25,8 cm.
Achille Vianelli
Campidoglio Benevento 13. augt 1847. Feder und Pinsel in Braun über schwarzem Stift. Mit brauner Feder unten links betitelt und datiert, unten rechts signiert: Vianelli. 32,7 x 23,5 cm.
Achille Vianelli
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1803
Achille Vianelli born at Porto Maurizio.
1894
Achille Vianelli died at Benevento.
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Achille Vianelli was born in Porto Maurizio.
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Achille Vianelli died in Benevento.
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- 1.Lord Napier erroneously refers to him as Giambattista, the name of his father.
- 2.Important Works on Paper: Vedute from the Kingdom of Naples from the 18th and 19th Centuries, Catalogue edited by Ermanno Bellucci, with editorial assistance by Milena Naldi, BNB Art Consulting]
- 3.Italian Wikipedia entry
- 4.Napier, Lord Francis. Notes on Modern Painting at Naples. John W. Parker and Son. 80. 1855.
- 5.‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 545.
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Vianelli, Achille, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Vianelli [Viennelly], Achille, Oxford Art Online, 2003
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