Gustave Boulanger
He trained under his father, the painter Achille Vianelli, and his uncle the Cavalier Giacinto Gigante, then moved to Paris, where in 1875 he studied figure painting under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. His first paintings, two small landscapes, were exhibited in the 1877 Salon di Paris: "Fundarà ad Ischia" and "Avanzi del teatro romano a Benevento".