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Watercolor by Albert Moore Size 5" by 12". Done about 1886.
Moore's insignia upper left corner.
Sealed in frame that dates to around the period. (Not been examined out of the frame, but easily seen painted on handwoven type rag paper)
This appears to be a companion for Moore's painting entitled "Myrtle", as it is the same model and the same scene.
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Pre-Raphaelite Watercolor by Ricciardo Meacci
Ricciardo Meacci was one of the rare Pre-Raphaelites, as he was not English, but Italian. He worked exclusively in watercolor, redefining DETAIL and presence in his works. He was born near Chiusi. After attending the Academy of Fine Art in Siena between 1871 and 1880, he moved to Florence where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. He specialized in small and extremely highly worked allegorical watercolors and tempera paintings. Meacci’s work, like that of the English painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, who moved to Florence in the same year, has a strongly historicist flavor, revealing the influence of the English Pre-Raphaelite artists and their circle, particularly Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Meacci seems to have found his principal clients among the aristocratic expatriate English community living in and around Florence. His watercolors, always presented in elaborately decorated frames, had the souvenir appeal of miniature versions of Renaissance altar-pieces. Meacci was commissioned to decorate the missal of the English church at Florence, Holy Trinity, and he painted figures of prophets for the ceiling of the Istituto di Santa Teresa and frescos for the Palazzo Pubblico, both in Siena. He did many Royal commissions, including the wedding gift from Violet Cavendish-Bentinck, the unmarried sister of Lady Elizabeth’s mother. Meacci also did a headboard for the Queen.
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