Antonietta Brandeis (Miscocon, January 13, 1848 - Florence, March 20, 1926) was a landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces. It is in Venice at the Academy that Brandeis perfected her skills as a meticulous landscape and cityscape painter, with intricate and luminous details in the tradition of the eighteenth-century “vedutisti”. In 1870, while still a student at the Academy, she participated in her first exhibition; that of the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti with the oil painting Cascina della Madonna di Monte Varese. During the years 1878 to 1893 Brandeis painted and exhibited numerous works, primarily scenes of Venice, and although she resided chiefly in that city she also traveled and painted in Verona, Bologna, Florence, and Rome.
[Sotheby’s, London - Oil on panel, 13 x 23 cm]