Lot 411: Nicolau Antonio Facchinetti (Treviso 1824-1900 Rio

Nicolau Antonio Facchinetti (Treviso 1824-1900 Rio de Janeiro) View of the Gulf of Rio de Janeiro, signed and dated N. Facchinetti Julio 1872, Oil on canvas, inscribed verso: Entrada del golfo di Rio-Janeiro (Brasile) Dipinta dal vero nel mese di Luglio 1872, per commissione di S. A. il Principe Augusta Duca di Saxe, nota dell' autore N. Facchinetti, 66 x 117,5 cm, framed, craquelure, (W) Nicolau Antonio Facchinetti: After three years of study in Venice, he moved to Rio de Janeiro after the 1948-9 revolution. He worked there first of all as a scene-painter for a theatre. In 1865 he earned his certificate as lecturer at the Imperial Academy in Rio. From 1870 he turned to landscape painting, which he taught himself; he was encouraged in this by Princess Isabel, daughter of King Pedro II. Between 1880 and 1890 he developed his marine paintings. Facchinetti was a naturalistic painter of the open-air school; the accuracy of his landscapes was of first importance to him, which is why he nearly always annoated his work with details of the precise time and place depicted.