Federico Andreotti

(Firenze, 1847 - Firenze, 1930)

signed Federico Andreotti on the bottom right.

Andreotti was a painter and sculptor among the major exponents of the Italian artistic panorama between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century . He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence where he trained with Enrico Pollastrini and Stefano Ussi, with whom he adhered to romantic painting with numerous historical references. However, he soon abandoned this genre to dedicate himself to portraiture and genre scenes in seventeenth and eighteenth century contexts. In his works an impressionist trait almost seems to emerge in the laying of the brushstrokes. Authentication on photograph by Aurora Arte (Casamassima BA)