Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Mid-Century Modern some 70 in his first

some 70 in his first year as design director

one plaque has an impressed W

He began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown

he studied under Gustave Boulanger & Luc Oliver-Merson

Since then it has been in a private collection in San Francisco

Antique Italian Micro Mosaic Miniature Portrait Painting Porcelain Guido Reni,1895 Mid-Century Modern some 70 in his firstA good antique Italian Grand Tour miniature hand painted portrait on a porcelain plaque of Beatrice Cenci after the original by Guido Reni (1575 1642), the painting in a gilt brass micro mosaic frame, Florence, circa 1890. This very attractive Grand Tour miniature portrait of Beatrice Cenci was for several hundred years believed to be by Guido Reni, and scholars now believe that it is by Ginerva Cantofoli (1608 1672), the painting is signed illegibly