Antonietta Branseis (Miscocon, 1848 - Florence, 1926) was a nineteenth-century landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces. In 1876 and 1877 she exhibited three landscapes of Venice at the Promotrice Veneta, which sold to foreign collectors. In November of 1877 Brandeis showed the large painting Palazzo Cavalli a Venezia at the exhibition of the Hungarian Fine Arts Society in Budapest. In both Florence and Budapest, Brandeis showed her work under the name Antonio Brandeis. The biographer De Gubernatis offers the following explanation for the change of name: “her first pictures received praise and criticism; she took the criticism, but when she was praised as a woman she was annoyed, and therefore exhibited under the name Antonio Brandeis.”
[Sold for Euro 10,810 at Sotheby’s, Amsterdam - Oil on panel, 21 x 11.5 cm]