Battistini (Mattia) - Antonino Calcagnadoro

Portrait of Italian baritone Mattia Battistini, signed and dated "Antonino Calcagnadoro, Rieti, 1905", oil on board, in original pale brown velvet frame lettered "Per la Patria/ Rieti 1905", 500 x 370mm.

***Provenance: Mattia Battistini; thence by descent

Antonino Calcagnadoro (1876-1935) was an Italian artist mostly active as ornamental painter. In 1904 he won an award at the Florence Exposition and took part in the National Exhibition in 1917. In 1924 he began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He participated in 1930 in the First International Exhibition of Sacred Art, where king Victor Emmanuel III bought one of his paintings.