Oreste Costa
Oreste Costa (1851 - 1901) was an Italian painter, active mainly painting genre scenes, landscapes, and still lifes.
Biography
He was born in Florence, and trained under Antonio Ciseri. Among his works was a Gli ultimi Sforzi.[1] His brother Antonio was also a painter. He exhibited frequently in England.[2] One of his paintings, a genre scene with tippling elderly peasants is found at the Hillwood museum.[3]
References
- ^ Piccolo dizionario dei contemporanei italiani, by Angelo Gubernatis (1895), page 270.
- ^ Il Valore dei dipinti italiani dell'Ottocento e del primo del Novecento, by Giuseppe Luigi Marini (2001), Page 254.
- ^ Collection of Hillwood museum.
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