Francesca Stuart Sindici

Spanish artist (1858–c. 1929)

Francesca Stuart Sindici
Born	1858 Madrid
Died	c. 1929 Rome
Nationality	Spain, Italy

Francesca Stuart Sindici (1858 – c. 1929) was a Spanish-Italian painter.

Sindici was born in Madrid in 1858 and became a pupil of Eduardo Dalbono and Domenico Morelli at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.^[1] She married the Italian poet Augusto Sindici. Together they had a daughter, Magda, who became a novelist and later married a publisher. She died in 1929 at the age of 71.

Sindici is best known for her paintings of horses and cavalry. Her painting A Carriage Race at Naples was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.^[2]

References

^ Stuart Sindici in Italian dictionary of artists
^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

External links

Media related to Francesca Stuart Sindici at Wikimedia Commons
Francesca Sindici on artnet
Spedizione di Roma 1870, il passaggio del Tevere Archived 2017-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, 1870 painting in the Museo centrale del Risorgimento, Rome