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Leonardo Barbieri

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Leonardo Barbieri
Born1818
Died1896
Occupation(s)Portrait painter, daguerrotypist

Leonardo Barbieri (1818-1896) was an Italian portrait painter and daguerrotypist who was an expatriate in the Western Hemisphere, including Argentina, Bolivia, California, and Peru, in the 1840s-1860s. He did many portraits of Californios.

Life

Barbieri was born in 1818 in the Duchy of Savoy, Italy.[1][2] He was educated in Lyon, and he emigrated to the Americas in 1844.[3]

Barbieri became a portrait painter in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1844.[3] He subsequently taught drawing in La Paz, Bolivia. By 1849, he had opened a studio in San Francisco, followed by Santa Barbara in 1850 and 1852,[3] and Monterey in 1852.[2] While in California, Barbieri did many portraits of Californios.[2] He was a portrait painter and daguerrotypist in Lima, Peru in 1861-1863,[1] He opened an art school, and his students included Peruvian painters Federico del Campo and Daniel Hernández Morillo.[2]

Barbieri returned to Europe in 1871,[3] where he died in 1896.[1] His work is in the permanent collections of the De Saisset Museum on the campus of Santa Clara University and the Santa Barbara Historical Society.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c Palmquist, Peter E. (2001). Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 97. ISBN 9780804738835. OCLC 491314989.
  2. ^ a b c d Kamerling, Bruce (December 1987). "California's Leonardo: The Portraits of Signor Barbieri". California History. 66 (4): 262–277. doi:10.2307/25177285 – via JSTOR.
  3. ^ a b c d Redmon, Michael (June 8, 2016). "Portraitist Leonardo Barbieri". Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  4. ^ Lindsay, Emily (May 4, 2018). "Barbieri painting recently on loan to exhibition connected to Pacific Standard Time in Los Angeles". De Saisset Museum. Santa Clara University. Retrieved January 12, 2020.
  5. ^ "Carlos Antonio Carrillo". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved January 12, 2020.