Andrea Appiani, ' the younger,' who was the great-nephew of the painter of the same name, was born in 1817. He studied at Rome under Minardi and Frans Hayez, and became a good historical painter. He was employed by the King of Italy, the Emperor of Austria, and other personages of celebrity. Of his works may be mentioned 'Petrarch and Laura' (1852); 'Laban and Jacob,' and 'La povera Maria' (1859). He died in 1865.
This article incorporates text from the article "APPIANI, Andrea, ' the younger,'" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.