Maria Cortini Viviani

Maria Cortini Viviani - Mid 20th Century Oil, Young Girl with Pigtails

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A vibrant and rich portrait of a young girl wearing an oversized white shirt and colourful scarf. Her long brown hair falls effortlessly across her shoulders and is tied with an oran...

A softly rendered watercolour portrait of a your girl by British painter and illustrator Gertrude Demain Hammond (1862-1953). Well-presented in a decorative gilt-effect frame with a ...

Portrait of a girl is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative work of a female fi...

Portrait of a young Russian or French girl executed in charcoal and gouache on paper. Harlamoff was most renowned for his masterful portraits of young girls of which this is a fine example, chosen for their charming and innocent beauty. Signed lower left A. Harlamoff. Signed on the reverse Alexei Harlamoff. Alexei Harlamoff was born in the village of Dyachevka near Saratov on the Volga. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, and he won both a Gold Medal and a scholarship in 1868. The scholarship enabled him to travel to Paris, where he studied under portrait painter Léon Bonnat, and by 1874 he was visited by Russian marine painter Alexei Bogoliubov, who reported back to Russia on the young artist’s visible success. In 1875, Harlamoff exhibited his portraits of Louis and Pauline Viardot to great acclaim, marking a turning point in his career. French writer Emile Zola...