Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Drawings & Prints Henry Joseph Fradelle

Henry Joseph Fradelle

The chairs are finely carved from high quality solid mahogany

the blue ground decorated with scrolling gilded foliate

5" wide X 9" deep

This very fine tea caddy is engraved in the Chinoiserie taste

Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Drawings & Prints Henry Joseph FradelleA very good antique oil on panel costume genre painting by the celebrated Northern Italian artist, Francesco Vinea (1845 1902), the painting dated signed and dated 1873. Vinea studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then worked as a designer of illustrated periodicals, he returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollestrini. Vinea unapologetically produced incredibly high quality humorous and whimsical scenes that were