antique oil on canvas painting Ettore Cumbo Borgia late 19th century ( Messina 1833- Florence 1899

Rare Oil painting on canvas depicting sunset ,Florentine impressionist period- Author Ettore Cumbo Borgia ( Messina 1833- Florence 1899 ) signed on the back of the frame-mis.frame 56 x 46 cm oil 30x20 CUMBO, Ettore Son of Diego and Alcmena Borgia, he was born in Messina in 1833. A Roman by adoption-he lived in Rome with his mother (De Gubernatis) from childhood-he studied with excellent results at the College of the Sapienza in Perugia and, having completed the course in 1850, showed interest in mathematical disciplines, with particular attention to architecture and engineering. In 1857 he abandoned his engineering studies to devote himself to painting, choosing the genre of landscape, in which he had as a master the Roman A. Castelli, an artist of Akkadian-Romantic training with verist accents and a fairly successful landscape painter in those decades. We know that he formed friendships with S. Ussi, N. Barabino, and V. Matteo Corcos (Accascina, 1939, p. 118), but his path turns out to be absolutely disengaged from the theoretical debate and the new artistic currents of the post-unification years. Beginning around 1870 C. published his paintings-mountain subjects, seascapes, Florentine views, still lifes-establishing himself as a genre painter. He also participated in numerous exhibitions: notably the international one in London in 1874, the regional horticulture exhibitions in Palermo in 1886 and 1887 (gaining recognition for his sought-after still-life paintings) and the national one in Palermo in 1891-92 (silver medal for the painting depicting a Landscape on the Apennines, now in the Banco di Sicilia collection). In 1893 he became a member of the Accademia di S. Luca, as an "academician of merit" (Rome, Arch. of the Accademia di S. Luca C. died in Florence on Jan. 16, 1899. A retrospective exhibition of his works was held in Florence in 1910.