Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Drawings & Prints Omani dowry chest

Omani dowry chest

the blue ground decorated with scrolling gilded foliate

5" wide X 9" deep

Henry Joseph Fradelle

Having excelled in his academic performance

Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Drawings & Prints Omani dowry chestA 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