Giuseppe Ferrari

Giuseppe Ferrari (1840–1905) was an Italian painter.

Biography

After completing his academic studies at Accademia di San Luca in Rome under the tutelage of Alessandro Marini, he travelled through Africa and the Middle East, where he found strong suggestions and inspiration for several landscape paintings from that period. In 1877 he moved to London, where he studied the work of painters such as John Constable and William Turner.

Artistic production

Ferrari is considered one of the most important Italian landscape painters of his time. In particular, he used to portray the campagna romana, insomuch as founded with other painters, among which Enrico Coleman and Cesare Pascarella, the group "XXV della campagna romana". In the last years of his life he dedicated to portraits as well. Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna; Milan, Modern Art Gallery.