Charles Edward Perugini
Charles Edward Perugini (1 September 1839 – 22 December 1918), originally Carlo Perugini, was an Italian-born English painter of the Romantic and Victorian era.
Biography
[edit]Perugini was born in Naples, but lived with his family in England from the ages of six to 17. He trained in Italy under Giuseppe Bonolis and Giuseppe Mancinelli, and in Paris under Ary Scheffer. He became a protégé of Lord Leighton, who brought him back to England in 1863. Perugini may at first have worked as Leighton's studio assistant. Under Leighton's influence, he began as a painter of classical scenes; then "he turned to the more profitable pastures of portrait painting, and genre pictures of pretty women and children."[1]
In 1874, he married the youngest daughter of novelist Charles Dickens, who as Kate Perugini[2] pursued her own artistic career, sometimes collaborating with her husband. Perugini's 1878 picture A Girl Reading, perhaps his best-known single work, is in the collection of the Manchester Art Gallery. It was bequeathed by James Thomas Blair in 1917.
Perugini's portrait of Sophie Gray, the sister-in-law of Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais, was for many years mistaken for a work by Millais himself.
Perugini and his wife maintained an active social life in artistic circles of their era. He died in London.
Works
[edit]- A Girl Reading (1878; Manchester Art Gallery)
- Orange Blossoms (1879)
- Faithful (1879; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
- Tender Cares (1880)[3]
- Idle Moments (before 1885)
- A Summer Shower (1888; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull)
- 'The Highborn Ladye-Moore' (Untraced)
- La Superba (Untraced)
- Graziella
- A Backward Glance
Gallery (selected)
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Perugini's portrait of his wife Kate -
A Summer Shower -
A Girl Reading -
The Ramparts, Walmer Castle; Portraits of the Countess Granville, and the Ladies Victoria and Mary Leveson-Gower -
Portrait of Sophia Gray
References
[edit]- ^ Christopher Wood, Victorian Painting, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999; p. 227.
- ^ Lucinda Hawksley, Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter, New York: Doubleday, 2006.
- ^ "Exhibition of Paintings, Walker Art Gallery: No. III", Liverpool Mercury, 18 September 1880, p. 6.
External links
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- Perugini's A Backward Glance.
- Silva.
- The portrait of Sophie Grey.
- The Green Lizard - Rehs Galleries' biography and an image of the artist's 1902 Royal Academy painting.
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- 19th-century English painters
- English male painters
- 20th-century English painters
- 19th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 20th-century Italian painters
- British genre painters
- English portrait painters
- 1839 births
- 1918 deaths
- 19th-century Neapolitan people
- Italian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- English people of Italian descent
- Artists' Rifles officers
- 19th-century Italian male artists
- 20th-century Italian male artists
- 20th-century English male artists
- 19th-century English male artists
- Dickens family