Lot Essay
Canevari is known to have worked in Genoa.
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A young Naval officer, facing right in red-piped blue coat with crimson collar, the gilt epaulettes and buttons decorated with anchors, parted curly light brown hair, sidewhiskers and moustache; dusk seascape background with the port of Genoa and the Lanterna lighthouse to the right
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GIOVANNI BAPTISTA CANEVARI (1789-1876)
A young Naval officer, facing right in red-piped blue coat with crimson collar, the gilt epaulettes and buttons decorated with anchors, parted curly light brown hair, sidewhiskers and moustache; dusk seascape background with the port of Genoa and the Lanterna lighthouse to the right
signed 'Canevari ft' (lower right)
oval, 2 7/16 in. (61 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with glazed reverse
A young Naval officer, facing right in red-piped blue coat with crimson collar, the gilt epaulettes and buttons decorated with anchors, parted curly light brown hair, sidewhiskers and moustache; dusk seascape background with the port of Genoa and the Lanterna lighthouse to the right
signed 'Canevari ft' (lower right)
oval, 2 7/16 in. (61 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with glazed reverse
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