Charles Edward Perugini
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England
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painter of the Victorian era
Victorian era
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.
Perugini was born in Naples
Naples
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, but lived with his family in England from the ages of six to seventeen. He trained in Italy
Italy
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under Giuseppe Bonolis and Giuseppe Mancinelli, and in Paris
Paris
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under Ary Scheffer
Ary Scheffer
Ary Scheffer , French painter of Dutch and German extraction, was born in Dordrecht.-Life:After the early death of his father Johann Baptist, a poor painter, Ary's mother Cornelia, herself a painter and daughter of landscapist Arie Lamme, took him to Paris and placed him in the studio of...
. He became a protégé of Lord Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton PRA , known as Sir Frederic Leighton, Bt, between 1886 and 1896, was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter...
, who brought him back to England in 1863. He 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."
In 1874, he married the youngest daughter of novelist Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
; as Kate Perugini
Kate Perugini
Kate Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Charles Dickens.-Biography:...
she pursued her own artistic career, sometimes collaborating with her husband. Perugini's 1878 picture Girl Reading, perhaps his best-known single work, is in the collection of the Manchester
Manchester
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City Art Galleries.
Perugini's portrait of Sophy Gray
Sophy Gray
Sophy Gray or Sophia Gray , was a Diocesan administrator, artist, architect, horsewoman and the wife of Cape Town bishop Robert Gray...
, the sister-in-law of Pre-Raphaelite
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
painter Sir John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...
, 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.
External links
- 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.