Emma Gaggiotti Richards
Emma Gaggiotti Richards (1825 – 1912) was an Italian painter who was active in the United Kingdom. She completed five paintings for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Also recorded as Emma Gaggiotti-Richards · Richards, Emma Gaggiotti, 1825-1912
Emma Gaggiotti Richards
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- Name
- Emma Gaggiotti Richards
- Birth Name
- Emma Camilla Angela Maria Gaggiotti
- Born
- 1825
- Birthplace
- Rome, Papal States (now Italy)
- Died
- 1912
- Place of death
- Velletri, Italy
- Known for
- painting
- Education
- Nicola Consorti
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- portrait.
- Languages
- English.
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Emma Gaggiotti Richards (1825 – 1912) was an Italian painter who was active in the United Kingdom. She completed five paintings for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
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The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Emma Gaggiotti Richards is recorded in the collections of National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi Gallery and Galleria d'arte moderna of Genoa.
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• Name — Emma Gaggiotti Richards • Birth Name — Emma Camilla Angela Maria Gaggiotti • Born — 1825 • Birthplace — Rome, Papal States (now Italy) • Died — 1912 • Place of death — Velletri, Italy • Known for — painting • Education — Nicola Consorti
Life
Life
She was the daughter of Camillo and Angelina Gaggiotti. Born in Rome in 1825, she grew up in Ancona. She was taught to paint by Nicola Consorti. Her father, Camillo Gaggiotti was the minister of war in Rome. On 15 February 1849 she married the journalist Alfred Bate Richards. In 1850 Prince Albert gave three of her paintings, Faith, Hope, and Charity to his wife Queen Victoria. It is thought that the Queen saw the artist's self-portrait exhibited in 1851 at the Royal Academy and commissioned a second self-portrait which she gave to Prince Albert for Christmas in 1853. The following year Richards returned to Italy where she continued to paint. One of her works was a portrait of Alexander von Humboldt. From 1865 to 1904 she was in Florence. Richards moved to Velletri in 1904 and died there in 1912.
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1825
Emma Gaggiotti Richards born at Rome.
1912
Emma Gaggiotti Richards died at Velletri.
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She has five paintings in the Royal collection and three of those, Faith, Hope, and Charity, are exhibited in the Horn Corridor at Osborne House. Another painting of hers, of Adelaide Proctor, is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. An 1855 portrait of Alexander von Humboldt, formerly in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, was at that institution's dissolution accessioned by the National Portrait Gallery.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Emma Gaggiotti-Richards and Richards, Emma Gaggiotti, 1825-1912. Her recorded language was English. She was the child of Camillo Gaggiotti.
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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Palazzo Pitti and Uffizi Gallery
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