page_title: Edoardo Tofano
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Edoardo Tofano / Biography
context_page_description: Edoardo Tofano was an Italian painter. He painted historic, genre and Orientalist themes.
context_section_description: He began his studies at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but completed studies at the Accademia Clementina of Bologna. He then returned to Naples where he became a follower of the Realism of Domenico Morelli. At the age of 23 (1861), he was recruited as an instructor at the Art Institute of Naples, a post he held till 1864. He resigned to create works marketed by the Goupil Gallery in Paris, and was patronized by British collectors.
  Among his work are The cabin of Nelson and Donna con Ventaglio (Girl with Fan) He also painted orientalist subjects and portraits, including those exhibited at 1897 at London, Portrait of Lady Hastings Campbell (Flora Mure-Campbell, Marchioness of Hastings?) and in 1906 at Paris (Princess Alexandria of Yugoslavia).
caption: In deep thought, oil on panel
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