Vincenzo Volpe

Vincenzo Volpe (Grottaminarda, Campania December 14, 1855 – Naples, February 9, 1929[1]) was an Italian painter.

He was resident in Naples, and mainly painted small canvases with intimate genre subjects. In 1877 at Naples, he exhibited a painting titled: A peaceful interruption; in 1883 at Milan: Orazione and 'Accordo difficile, He restored and submitted four paintings the same year at Rome, including Canzone allegra, which depicts an old man squatting on a stool, playing guitar and singing to a bed-ridden convalescent girl.

In 1884 at Turin, he exhibited: Nello studio; in 1887 at Venice: Una partita d'onore and Lezione di musica. At the 1891 Exposizione Triennale of the Brera Academy, he exhibited: Una vecchia canzone.[2] One of his pupils was Giulia Masucci Fava.

References

  1. ↑ Short biography.
  2. ↑ ‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 552.