Augusto Moriani, Italian, French, 1854 to 1913, watercolor painting on paper depicting a portrait of a sailor, 1904. Signed, inscribed, Capri, dated lower left. Framed. Augusto Moriani is known for Watercolor genre and portrait painting, frescoes, oil landscapes. Antonio Augusto Moriani was a Neapolitan artist who specialized in watercolor genre portraits of tipi napolitani, or workaday people, around the Bay of Naples. He was not the first in Italy to produce a body of such portraits, but he was almost certainly among the first to do so in Naples, along with Edoardo Forlenza and Bernardo Hay. A few watercolor landscapes of scenes around the Bay of Naples are known, and upwards of twenty oils are also known. Much of his life he lived in Sorrento, and indeed a good number of his watercolors are sited to Sorrento below the signature. Moriani was in Paris in 1887, and he also spent an extended period in Taormina, most likely in the 1890s. One of a kind artwork.

Dimensions: Framed 24 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. All measurements are approximate.