DOI Heft:
No. 215 (February, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Margaux, Adrian: A painter of Naples: Edoardo Dalbono
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0061
Rdoardo Dalbono
PAINTER OF NAPLES:
EDO ARDO DALBONO. BY
ADRIAN MARGAUX.
A Neapolitan to his finger tips, Edoardo
Dalbono stands foremost in a group of artists
who delight in painting Naples as the earthly
paradise which it certainly appears on a sunny day
in April. The scenery, atmosphere, architecture,
costume, and people of the city have been pictured
times out of number by artists of almost every
nationality, but these aspects of the place form so
charming an ensemble on the canvas of Dalbono
that the triteness of the theme is forgotten in the
daintiness of its treatment.
Dalbono knows Naples as a foreign artist can
hardly hope to know it. With the exception of a
short time in Rome for the study of art under
Augusto Marchetti, and some years in Paris, he
has lived his life there, working day by day in his
studio on Monteoliveto, rambling and sketching
in its streets and along its shores, and idling in its
cafes. He was born in 1843, tne son °f two well-
known members of Neapolitan society at that
time—Charles Titus Dalbono, an author of some
repute on subjects of literary elegance, and Vir-
ginia Gavelli, who was almost as well known as a
poetess. By such parents, the artistic talents of
which Edoardo gave indication at an early age
were encouraged and cultivated with loving care.
For some time music—in which he was instructed
by Lillo—and painting were both assiduously
studied, but eventually, under the influence of
some of the leading Neapolitan artists, Dalbono's
choice was made in favour of the latter.
Dalbono is said to have painted complete pictures
at an extraordinarily early age. A favourite book
of his childhood was a collection of popular tradi-
tions of Naples, and whilst still a child he put two of
these traditions upon canvas, The Funeral of Zita
and The Witclus of Benevento. They were actually
exhibited and purchased by a foreign collector,
who doubtless little suspected the age of the
artist. When only nine years old he obtained a
silver medal at the local exhibition for an historical
picture, St. Louis Administering Justice under ^the
"AUTUMN CLOUDS
BY EDOARDO DALBONO
39
PAINTER OF NAPLES:
EDO ARDO DALBONO. BY
ADRIAN MARGAUX.
A Neapolitan to his finger tips, Edoardo
Dalbono stands foremost in a group of artists
who delight in painting Naples as the earthly
paradise which it certainly appears on a sunny day
in April. The scenery, atmosphere, architecture,
costume, and people of the city have been pictured
times out of number by artists of almost every
nationality, but these aspects of the place form so
charming an ensemble on the canvas of Dalbono
that the triteness of the theme is forgotten in the
daintiness of its treatment.
Dalbono knows Naples as a foreign artist can
hardly hope to know it. With the exception of a
short time in Rome for the study of art under
Augusto Marchetti, and some years in Paris, he
has lived his life there, working day by day in his
studio on Monteoliveto, rambling and sketching
in its streets and along its shores, and idling in its
cafes. He was born in 1843, tne son °f two well-
known members of Neapolitan society at that
time—Charles Titus Dalbono, an author of some
repute on subjects of literary elegance, and Vir-
ginia Gavelli, who was almost as well known as a
poetess. By such parents, the artistic talents of
which Edoardo gave indication at an early age
were encouraged and cultivated with loving care.
For some time music—in which he was instructed
by Lillo—and painting were both assiduously
studied, but eventually, under the influence of
some of the leading Neapolitan artists, Dalbono's
choice was made in favour of the latter.
Dalbono is said to have painted complete pictures
at an extraordinarily early age. A favourite book
of his childhood was a collection of popular tradi-
tions of Naples, and whilst still a child he put two of
these traditions upon canvas, The Funeral of Zita
and The Witclus of Benevento. They were actually
exhibited and purchased by a foreign collector,
who doubtless little suspected the age of the
artist. When only nine years old he obtained a
silver medal at the local exhibition for an historical
picture, St. Louis Administering Justice under ^the
"AUTUMN CLOUDS
BY EDOARDO DALBONO
39