Charles Edward Perugini(1839~ 1918)
The Orangery
Dressing Up
Silvia
Women Reading
Peonies
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Portrait of Miss Helen Lindsay
Flower Worship (Restrike Etching)
Hero(Iseult)
Colored Iithograph
The Lizard Charmer
Charles Edward Perugini(1839~ 1918)
Charles Perugini was born in Naples. His family - that had resided in England in the past - went back to England when he was six years old. When he was 17 he was sent to Italy by H. Vernet after the latter had seen his drawings. he studied under Guiseppe Bonolis and Guiseppe Mancinelli and in 1854 in France under Ary Scheffer. In France he met Dickens who sat for his portrait by Scheffer. Dickens daughter Kate was also there at the time but he didn't meet her. Eventually he would marry her in 1873.
A few years later Perugini returned to Engeland (encouraged by Frederic Leighton) and in 1863 he moved London, where "Playing at Work" was his first painting that was exhibited at the Royal Academy. His work reminds of Leighton and of Alma-Tadema because of the classical settings ad the elegant women, but is is colder in nature.