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Charles Edward Perugini (Naples, 1829 - London, 1918) was born in an anglophile Italian family in Naples and moved to England while he was eight. In 1874, Perugini married Kate Dickens, daughter of the novelist Charles Dickens and widow of the painter Charles Collins, a close friend of the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and younger brother of the novelist Wilkie Collins. The title cites lines from Alfred Tennyson’s poem Break, Break, Break that were popularly used for obituaries.
[Christie’s, Amsterdam - Oil on canvas, 77.2 x 54.9 cm]
