Cane e Gatto - Eugenio De Blaas

(Albano Laziale 1843 - Venezia 1931)
Cm 35x24 | In 13.78x9.45
Oil on cardboard
Eugenio was born in Albano, near Rome, to an Austrian father (Karl von Blaas) and an Italian mother (Agnesina Ajuda). His father Karl was a Nazarene painter who moved with his family to Venice in 1856 and became a professor at the Venice Academy. He studied at the Accademia in Rome and the Accademia in Venice, a pupil of his father Karl, where his progress was immediately noticed; in 1860 he won the Selvatico prize and was already exhibiting in the halls of the Accademia. His first major work is dated 1863-an altarpiece for the parish church of San Valentino in Merano (now in the Domus Mercatoruma in Bolzano). Over the years various works followed, mostly on the theme of Venetian landscapes, depicted the life of fishermen, gondoliers and Venetian beauties. He was also a portraitist of Roman and Venetian nobles, his most famous works including portraits of the man Philip Richard Morris and Duchess Ersilia Canevaro. Love Letter. He exhibited in Italy and abroad: in Vienna, London between 1875 and 1892; in Paris, Berlin, Munich, Brussels and St. Petersburg. From 1884 to 1890 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Painting at the Venice Academy. He died in Venice in 1931. His works are exhibited in museums in Leicester, Melbourne, Nottingham, Sheffield, Sydney, Vienna and Trieste.