About Nina Fagnani
Lived 1856 – 1928 (aged 71). Nina Fagnani was an American painter.
Nina Fagnani (1856–1928) was an American-born French painter of portrait miniatures.
Fagnani was the daughter of Italian-born painter Giuseppe Fagnani, who had emigrated to the United States in the company of Sir Henry Bulwer when he came to take up his post as British ambassador in 1849. He later became an American citizen and married, in 1851, Harriet Emma Everett Goodwin of Charlestown, Massachusetts. The couple took up residence in New York City, where Nina was born on September 24, 1856.
Fagnani was living in Paris in 1905. Her Portrait of Robert Stockwell Reynolds Hitt of 1893 was included in the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, American Women Artists 1830-1930, in 1987.
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Who was Nina Fagnani?
American-born French painter (1856-1928)
When was Nina Fagnani born?
Nina Fagnani was born on 24 September 1856 in New York City.
When did Nina Fagnani die?
Nina Fagnani died on 12 August 1928.
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Nina Fagnani was a painter.
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Nina Fagnani was American.
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