Portrait of Cesare Altoviti oil on canvas - Antonio Ciseri ( 1821-1893 )

Oil on canvas painting depicting Cesare Altoviti with carved and gilded wooden frame ,original of the period. Author Antonio Ciseri ( Ascona 1821-Florence 1891 )- Painting originally from the Altoviti Family,famous Florentine aristocratic family,bears Altoviti property tag,on the back of the canvas bears tag with attribution and date of work 1871-. We also have the pencil sketch that you can observe always in my store in proantic-. frame size 98 cm x83 cm -canvas 73.5 x 57.5 He was born in Ronco sopra Ascona, in Canton Ticino, on October 25, 1821,In 1833 he moved to Florence,C. was immediately placed to learn drawing privately with his first teacher, who was probably Emesto Buonaiuti, and always remained estranged from the activity of the Florentine workshop of his father and paternal grandfather Francesco Antonio descended from a family with a long tradition operating in Florence in the field of interior decoration. C.'s regular education began in 1834, when he was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.Affirmation completes in the decade 186070 the gallery of characters he had occasion to portray during this decade: from Cavour to Caterina and Domenico Bargagli, from Guerrazzi to Ottilia Peratoner and Anna Walter, from Foresi to Duprè, from Vittoria Altoviti Avila Toscanelli to Renato Fucini. Alongside more challenging paintings, C. continued his tireless work as a portraitist (he executed a total of an unspecifiable number of portraits, but certainly in the range of 300-350, often with the help of photographs of the "business card" format). Cesare Altoviti was born on May 22, 1803. Although he preferred to live always away from the brigades political brigades, he loved and warmly loves his homeland and desired it free and independent; and therefore giam¬ never recused himself from his work when he judged it useful to the good of his native country. Accordingly he accepted the rank of captain in the civic militia, in 1847, for a long time held the office of gonfalonier in the Community of Brozzi , and sat on the consi¬ provincial council of the Florentine compartment.