Ferdinando Cavalleri

Ferdinando Cavalleri, who was a painter of history and portraits, was born at Turin in 1794, and studied art at Rome. His paintings are justly esteemed for their fidelity and truth. He was in later life a professor at the Academy of St. Luke. He died in 1867. His best works are:

Beatrice Cenci ascending the Scaffold.
The Burning of Old St. Paul's.
The Death of Leonardo da Vinci.
Prince Eugene, after the Battle of Peterwardein.
His own Portrait (in the Uffizi, Florence).

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CAVALLERI, Ferdinando" 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.

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Name	Cavalleri, Ferdinando
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Date of birth	1794
Place of birth	Turin
Date of death	1867
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