Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Decorative Arts Batavian (now Jakarta) Dutch East

Batavian (now Jakarta) Dutch East Indies silver and tortoise shell Sirih casket

the dial of white enamel with various weather conditions

The resulting works were purchased by Pavel Tretyakov and the Imperial Family

He received commissions in his early 20's for a number of chapels and choir vaults in both Rome and Naples and later completed murals for larger and more significant buildings

5" tall X 13" diameter

Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Decorative Arts Batavian (now Jakarta) Dutch EastA 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