Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Pasquale Romanelli |
Role |
Artist |
Nationality |
Italian |
Dates & places of birth and death |
1812-1887 |
Notes |
Romanelli was born in Florence in 1812 and trained at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze. He later became a pupil of Luigi Pampaloni and then Lorenzo Barolini in Florence. After Bartolini's death, Romanelli took over the studio, which still exists today as Studio Romanelli, and established an art gallery in 1860, which still exists as Studio Galleria Romanelli. He created a statue in marble, "William Tell's Son," which was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1857. It was later shown at the Paris Exposition of 1878 and is believed to have been purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt. Romanelli was among the European artists intrigued by America's Centennial Exposition in 1876. With the Centennial for a market, he played on the popular American legends of Washington and the cherry tree and the boyish Franklin and his Whistle. |
