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Americans in Florence
American artists often spent some time in Florence, bringing with them the experience they had acquired first at home, then in other European cities and touring the Old World.
Frank Duveneck and William Meritt Chase shared crucial experiences both in Germany and in Italy. Duveneck worked and taught in Florence in the 1880s in the company of a group of American painters known as the "Duveneck boys", his disciples from Munich days. Chase lived in Florence in 1907 and 1913, choosing the city to hold his summer classes modelled on those that he and other American painters held in country and seaside settings in New England. The portraits of Henry James and Vernon Lee bring us to the heart of the sizeable Anglo-American colony in Florence.
Made up of scholars, writers and art critics, they moved around between Paris, New York and Florence sharing the same sparkling, stimulating lifestyle. The illustrations of Joseph Pennell and Maxfield Parrish show the villas and gardens which they frequented when staying in the city.
John Singer Sargent (Firenze 1856-London 1925)
Self-Portrait
1906
oil on canvas
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano
Robert Vonnoh (Hartford 1858-Nice 1933)
Portrait of Bessie Potter Vonnoh
1915
oil on canvas
New York, National Academy Museum, Gift of Bessie Potter Vonnoh and Robert William Vonnoh
Ernestine Fabbri
Sargent and Jack Bosio on horseback in the pine forest at Forte dei Marmi
1913
Photo
Drusilla Gucci Caffarelli
Frank Duveneck and William Meritt Chase shared crucial experiences both in Germany and in Italy. Duveneck worked and taught in Florence in the 1880s in the company of a group of American painters known as the "Duveneck boys", his disciples from Munich days. Chase lived in Florence in 1907 and 1913, choosing the city to hold his summer classes modelled on those that he and other American painters held in country and seaside settings in New England. The portraits of Henry James and Vernon Lee bring us to the heart of the sizeable Anglo-American colony in Florence.
Made up of scholars, writers and art critics, they moved around between Paris, New York and Florence sharing the same sparkling, stimulating lifestyle. The illustrations of Joseph Pennell and Maxfield Parrish show the villas and gardens which they frequented when staying in the city.
John Singer Sargent (Firenze 1856-London 1925)
Self-Portrait
1906
oil on canvas
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano
Robert Vonnoh (Hartford 1858-Nice 1933)
Portrait of Bessie Potter Vonnoh
1915
oil on canvas
New York, National Academy Museum, Gift of Bessie Potter Vonnoh and Robert William Vonnoh
Ernestine Fabbri
Sargent and Jack Bosio on horseback in the pine forest at Forte dei Marmi
1913
Photo
Drusilla Gucci Caffarelli
